Balancing Internal and External Knowledge Acquisition: The Gains and Pains from R&D Outsourcing

By Christoph Grimpe, Ulrich Kaiser. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Technology Acquisition in Family and Nonfamily Firms: A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Manufacturing Firms (2013, background): “Specifically, external technology acquisition is likely to entail greater complexity in product innovation (Grimpe and Kaiser, 2010) and would thus force family firms – that typically suffer disadvantages in terms of specialized human resources (e.”
Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams (2020, background): “…survey has become increasingly popular with empirical studies in the fields of both management and economics (Crépon, Duguet, and Mairesse 1998, Laursen and Salter 2006, Cassiman and Veugelers 2006, Lööf and Heshmati 2006, Grimpe and Kaiser 2010, Tavassoli and Karlsson 2015, Schubert et al. 2017).”
Unravelling appropriability mechanisms and openness depth effects on firm performance across stages in the innovation process (2017, background): “…knowledge sourcing and their effects on performance (see Berchicci et al., 2015; Cassiman and Veugelers, 2006; Cheng and Huizingh, 2014; George et al., 2001; Grimpe and Kaiser, 2010; Hung and Chiang, 2010; Martini et al., 2015: Salge et al., 2012; Svetina and Prodan, 2008; Tsai et al., 2011).”
An Integrated Agency-Resource Dependence View of the Influence of Directors' Human and Relational Capital on Firms' R&D Spending (2011, background): “For example, owing to the tendency for cooperation between inside directors and other top managers, research suggests that insiders may be more likely to utilize their high-tech interlocks to facilitate R&D alliances (Gulati and Westphal, 1999), which could reduce the need for internal R&D spending ”
Intellectual capital and radical innovation: Exploring the quadratic effects in technology-based manufacturing firms (2016, background): “Thus, empirical evidence demonstrates that the achievement of such a degree of innovation novelty can follow a different development process depending on what type of intellectual capital the firm is handling (Grimpe and Kaiser, 2010; Cabello-Medina et al., 2011).”
Environmental Innovations and Profitability: How Does it Pay to Be Green? (2013, background): “, size class (8 classes according to the number of employees) and region (West Germany and East Germany).”
Effectiveness of technology investment: Impact of internal technological capability, networking and investment's strategic importance (2012, background): “This finding corroborates previous contentions about the role of managerial attention to manage external relations (e.g. Grimpe and Kaiser, 2010).”