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Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy
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In this article, the authors explain why innovating firms often fail to obtain significant economic returns from an innovation, while customers, imitators and other industry participants be- nefit.About:
This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 1993-04-01. It has received 7020 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Complementary assets & Commercial policy.read more
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Obtaining Strategic Advantage from Being Imitated: When Can Encouraging Clones Pay?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a different set of situations: the model developed suggests that an innovator's best strategy may be to encourage "clones" of its product when a network externality is present.
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The sustainable diffusion of renewable energy technologies as an example of an innovation-focused policy
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative approach is proposed, which integrates the supply and demand-side perspectives, arguing that a successful policy for the speedy deployment of renewables should focus on the systemic innovation processes that characterize the development and sustainable diffusion of renewables.
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Technology cross-fertilization and the business model: The case of integrating ICTs in mechanical engineering products
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the increasing interdependency among different bodies of knowledge in products, from the technology opportunities arising from cross-fertilizing, and how firms try to appropriate economic value from their technical potential.
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Knowledge sources of entrepreneurship: Firm formation by academic, user and employee innovators☆
Rajshree Agarwal,Sonali K. Shah +1 more
TL;DR: The authors synthesize across literature streams examining each phenomena to document distinctions between firms originating from different knowledge contexts and integrate the knowledge context into Teece's (1986) theoretical framework identifying factors that impact a firm's ability to profit from innovation.
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Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees? Productive Capabilities and Gains From Trade as Drivers of Vertical Scope
TL;DR: The authors found that the distribution of productive capabilities along the value chain, catalyzed by transaction costs, ultimately drives vertical scope, and that firms' attempts to leverage a comparative advantage can also lead to the use of mixed governance modes.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model to account for both continuous changes and discontinuities in technological innovation, and define the process of selection of new technological paradigms among a greater set of notionally possible ones.