Old Is Gold? The Value of Temporal Exploration in the Creation of New Knowledge

By Atul Nerkar. Management Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity (2005, result): “Recently, some studies have built further on these insights, focusing on where heterogeneous resources come from, how they can be accessed, and on the effectiveness of the various mechanisms that firms may employ (Rosenkopf Nerkar, 2001; Rosenkopf Almeida, 2003; Ahuja Katila, 2004).”
Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research (2018, background): “There are several potential benefits to using temporally distant knowledge, including increased reliability, decreased risk of retaliation and incorrect applications, uniqueness and legitimacy of innovations (Hargadon and Douglas 2001; Nerkar 2003).”
Entry into Insular Domains: A Longitudinal Study of Knowledge Structuration and Innovation in Biotechnology Firms (2008, unknown): “In studying the reconfiguration of a firm’s knowledge, researchers have investigated the temporal aspect of recombining new knowledge with old knowledge (Katila, 2002; Nerkar, 2003).”
The Multifaceted Nature of Exploration and Exploitation: Value of Supply, Demand, and Spatial Search for Innovation (2007, background): “…may selectively reflect the more successful search endeavors; firms may search without filing patents; richer firms may file more patents simply because they can afford to; and the incidence of patenting varies across sectors, making cross-industry comparisons troublesome (e.g., Nerkar 2003).”
Untangling the Effects of Overexploration and Overexploitation on Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism† (2008, background): “These include search depth and search scope (Katila & Ahuja, 2002), science search and geography or location search (Ahuja & Katila, 2004; Fleming & Sorenson, 2004), and temporal search (Katila, 2002; Nerkar, 2003), among others.”
Exploration and Exploitation in Innovation: Reframing the Interpretation (2008, background): “…Dittrich, Duysters & de Man (2007), Lin, Yang & Demirkan (2007) Benner & Tushman (2002), He & Wong (2004), Holmqvist (2004), Katila & Ahuja (2002), Nerkar (2003), Nerkar & Roberts (2004), Argyres (1996), Jayanthi & Sinha (1998), Danneels (2002), Dowell & Swaminathan (2006), Phene et al. (2006),…”
On improvement rates for renewable energy technologies: Solar PV, wind turbines, capacitors, and batteries (2014, background): “The literature on the nature of breakthrough inventions has conjectured that breakthrough patents rely more on recent (or emerging) inventions [44,45].”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “Katila (2002) and Nerkar (2003) draw attention to the temporal aspect of this search process suggesting that the knowledge base is a dynamic entity and that elements of knowledge vary in their salience and importance in the recombinatory process over time (as demonstrated by the revealed…”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, unknown): “…Schumpeter, 1934; Van deVen, 1986) suggests that path-breaking andvaluable inventions result from the combination of new knowledgewith existing knowledge (Jung&Lee, 2016; Nerkar, 2003), and of distant knowledge with proximate knowledge (Capaldo, Lavie, & Petruzzelli, 2017; Dothan&Lavie, 2016).”
Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains (2012, background): “Further results include: benefits from combining old and more recent technology (Nerkar, 2003); more variable outcomes when combining unfamiliar technology (Fleming, 2001); and breakthroughs arising from experimentation with combinations of unfamiliar, recent, and novel inventions (Ahuja and Lampert”
The clock is ticking! Executive temporal depth, industry velocity, and competitive aggressiveness (2016, background): “Nerkar (2003) advocated the virtues of “recency” in avoiding errors and competence traps that can hamper creation of new knowledge.”
Where do resources come from? The role of idiosyncratic situations (2004, background): “Technology age it is defined as the average age of the priorart patents that are cited in a given firm’s yearly patents (Bierly and Chakrabarti, 1996; Katila, 2002; Nerkar, 2003).”
Ambidexterity in Technology Sourcing: The Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity (2009, background): “…phenomena such as innovation (Benner and Tushman 2003), strategic alliances (Lavie and Rosenkopf 2006, Park et al. 2002, Rothaermel and Deeds 2004), knowledge search and knowledge creation (Katila and Ahuja 2002, Nerkar 2003, Sidhu et al. 2007), and market entry (He and Wong 2004), among others.”
Evolution of R&D Capabilities: The Role of Knowledge Networks Within a Firm (2005, background): “We also include a variable that measures the age of the prior art in the focal patent because research indicates that patents that build on old knowledge have different citation patterns than patents that build on new knowledge (Nerkar 2003).”