Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community

By Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell. Organ. Sci., 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation (2010, neutral): “, the pipeline structure (Owen-Smith and Powell 2004).”
Nodes, networks and proximities: on the knowledge dynamics of the Medicon Valley biotech cluster (2004, background): “As Owen-Smith and Powell (2004) argue organisational form can be of equal importance in determining the type of knowledge flow.”
The Impact of Social Capital on the Start-ups’ Performance Growth (2010, background): “interactions for the start-up’s innovation activity (Owen-Smith and Powell 2004).”
Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition (2012, background): “…Marshall (1890) and Jacobs (1969), various studies have analyzed knowledge spillovers and highlighted their localized nature (e.g., Alcácer and Chung 2007, Almeida and Kogut 1999, Bell and Zaheer 2007, Gambardella and Giarratana 2010, Jaffe et al. 1993, Owen-Smith and Powell 2004, Sorenson 2003).”
A Taste for Science? PhD Scientists’ Academic Orientation and Self-Selection into Research Careers in Industry (2010, neutral): “…academic roots (e.g., founded by faculty members), they may also have a more “academic” atmosphere, potentially allowing their employees to interact more freely with the scientiﬁc community (Etzkowitz, 1998; Zucker et al., 2002; Gittelman and Kogut, 2003; Owen-Smith and Powell, 2004; Ding, 2009).”
SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE FLOWS: CLUSTERS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2005, background): “Instead, these recent commentaries argue that non-local (inter-regional and international) relationships and knowledge flows are crucial sources of vitality, complementing the local ‘buzz’ that has come to be regarded as the hallmark characteristic of the cluster (Bathelt et al. 2004; Owen-Smith and”
R&D productivity and the organization of cluster policy: an empirical evaluation of the Industrial Cluster Project in Japan (2011, background): “Regional innovation systems have attracted many researchers (e.g., Abramo et al. 2009; Acs et al. 2002; Aldieri and Cincera 2009; Anselin et al. 1997; Audretsch et al. 2005; Dahl and Pedersen 2004; Fritsch and Franke 2003; Furman et al. 2006; Jaffe et al. 1993; Owen-Smith and Powell 2004; Rondé and ”
Domestic alliance network to attract foreign partners: Evidence from international joint ventures in China (2014, background): “Markóczy, Sun, Peng, Shi, and Ren (2013) also point out that a Chinese firm occupying a central position tends to have stronger cooptation forces that mitigate the threat of potential state intervention, which is a critical capability that is highly sought after by foreign partners given the institu”
Interorganizational Networks at the Network Level: A Review of the Empirical Literature on Whole Networks (2007, background): “There have been few studies of whole network evolution (cf. Human & Provan, 2000; Lerch, Sydow, & Provan, 2006; Owen-Smith & Powell, 2004; Powell et al., 2005), and these have suggested a number of directions that the study of network evolution might proceed.”
What drives patent performance of German biotech firms? The impact of R&D subsidies, knowledge networks and their location (2011, background): “Hence, knowledge, especially in fields like biotechnology, is generated by close contact with other experts in the field largely based upon collaborative research (Owen-Smith and Powell 2004; Stuart et al. 2007).”
Metropolitan patenting, inventor agglomeration and social networks: A tale of two effects (2008, background): “Social networks have been highlighted as an important facet of regional innovation (Piore and Sabel 1984, Breschi and Lissoni 2001, Owen-Smith and Powell 2004) and are believed to be vital mechanisms for transferring knowledge and ideas between firms.1 To the extent that inventing and innovating…”
Lock-in or lock-out ? How structural properties of knowledge networks affect regional resilience (2014, background): “Researches converge on the idea that some regions draw their performance better than others from their ability to home networks of complementary and interacting organizations (Lechner & Dowling, 2003; Owen-Smith & Powell, 2004; Graf, 2011).”
Employee Mobility and Organizational Outcomes (2016, background): “Furthermore, as a result of higher levels of formal and informal collaboration amongst peer individuals and firms, relational advantages can be achieved in networks without the brokering enabled by the movement of talent (Owen-Smith & Powell, 2004; Powell, Koput, & Smith-Doerr, 1996).”
Uncovering space-independent communities in spatial networks (2010, background): “A dominant factor for focus constraint is geographic proximity, which oﬀers opportunities for face-to-face interaction and encounters between individuals [52, 53].”
Careers and Clusters: Analyzing the Career Network Dynamic of Biotechnology Clusters (2005, background): “These communities are distinctive because they bring the firm different knowledge and different social ties and yet both have been shown to be important for the commercialization of biotechnology (Casper and Kettler, 2001; Murray, 2004; Owen-Smith and Powell, 2004; Powell et al., 1996, 2002).”