Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett‐Packard's thermal ink‐jet

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Thinking About Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change (2008, background): “More recent studies have suggested that these breakthroughs come from creative recombinations of knowledge (Fleming, 2001; Fleming, 2002), but these still do not tell us much about the degree and type of variation.”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “…-human-genome-project-hgp/. specialists, who largely rely on the knowledge available within the domain, gradually exhaust any novel and impactful recombinations (Fleming, 2001; Schilling, 2005), a situation that Fleming (2002) called ‘‘combinatoric exhaustion.’’”
Social Networks, Cognitive Style, and Innovative Performance: A Contingency Perspective (2015, background): “Similarly, Fleming (2002) examined innovative dynamics within HewlettPackard and found that brokering social networks that cut across projects help engineers develop innovative technologies.”
Structural Microfoundations of Innovation (2014, background): “Socialization as well as intraorganizational persuasion and conflict are important components of successful search outcomes (Fleming, 2002; Gavetti & Levinthal, 2000).”