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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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Explaining growth paths of young technology‐based firms: structuring resource portfolios in different competitive environments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how environmental contingencies determine the way resources are accumulated in young technology-based firms and argue that growth paths are critically shaped at the nexus between resource management and the competitive environment, defined along its most important dimensions, namely stability and complexity.
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To protect or not to protect? Modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector
Jörg Thomä,Kilian Bizer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a cluster analysis of data from the German CIS was carried out to indentify four distinct modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector, and the relevance of each appropriation mode depends on such factors as the degree of innovativeness, the type of innovator and the general market environment.
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The Implications of Debt Heterogeneity for R&D Investment and Firm Performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that debt is heterogeneous: although transactional debt does indeed impose strict contractual constraints that provide inappropriate governance for R&D investments, relational debt has very different characteristics that provide more appropriate governance.
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Beyond the service factory: Service innovation in manufacturing supply networks
Martin Spring,Luis Araujo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply Edith Penrose's conception of services as emanating from firms' resources to examine an advanced component manufacturing firm in the course of a number of service-oriented projects.
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Technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning: Effects on organizational innovation to improve firm performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how top management support of technology influences the generation of technological skills, technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning, and how all of these variables impact organizational performance.
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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.