Science as a Map in Technological Search

By Lee Fleming, Olav Sorenson. 2004

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

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The Antecedents and Innovation Consequences of Organizational Knowledge Brokering Capability (2007, neutral): “It is worth noting that knowledge brokering can lead to more variable innovative outcomes, both on the negative and positive sides (Fleming, 2001; Fleming and Sorenson, 2004 ) as a result of the greater number of possible combinations together with the associated experimentation (Thomke, 2003) in…”
The Life Cycle of Corporate Venture Capital (2019, background): “…are classified into strategic CVCs and financial CVCs based on the 3See also Nelson and Winter (1982); Dosi (1988); Jovanovic and Rob (1989); Kortum (1997); Fleming and Sorenson (2004); Frydman and Papanikolaou (2017), among others. corporate announcements and media coverage at the point of entry.”
Organizational learning and entrepreneurship in family firms: exploring the moderating effect of ownership and cohesion (2012, background): “... of its learning? (2) When is the effect of ownership on organizational learning more pronounced and evident? and (3) What are the consequences of this learning for family firms’ entrepreneurial activities? To answer these questions, the study invokes the behavioral theory of the firm (March and ”
Complementary technologies, knowledge relatedness, and invention outcomes in high technology mergers and acquisitions (2009, background): “Also, firms may engage in sciencebased research because it enhances the process of investigation: ‘[it] may transform invention from a relatively haphazard search process to a more directed identification of useful new combinations’ (Fleming and Sorenson, 2004: 910).”
Entrepreneurs as theorists: on the origins of collective beliefs and novel strategies (2009, background): “Scholars have shown that the recombination of various knowledge elements (Rosenkopf and Nerkar, 2001; Fleming and Sorenson, 2004) can lead to highly promising and valuable products and entrepreneurial possibilities.”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “Several different types of search mechanics have been outlined in these models including recombinatory, cognitive and experiential search (Fleming, 2001 ; Fleming & Sorenson, 2004 ; Gavetti & Levinthal, 2000 ).”
What Do I Take with Me?: The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship (2016, neutral): “Prior work has shown that higher complexity of tasks increases interdependencies among team members (Fleming & Sorenson, 2004).”
Exploration and Exploitation in Innovation: Reframing the Interpretation (2008, background): “Science can provide a guide for new technology search (Fleming & Sorenson, 2004).”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, methodology): “…(Hsu, Hannan, and Kocak, 2009; Negro and Leung, 2013), but also from the cognitive and collaborative challenges of category-spanning work, which are highlighted in the scholarship on science (Fleming and Sorenson, 2004; Cummings and Kiesler, 2005; Schilling and Green, 2011; Wagner et al., 2011).”
Knowledge sources and impacts on subsequent inventions: Do green technologies differ from non-green ones? (2018, methodology): “The use of forward citations is probably the most commonly-used measure of patent quality (Trajtenberg, 1990; Trajtenberg et al., 1997; Hall and Helmers, 2013; Sorenson and Fleming, 2004).”
Knowledge-based human resource management practices, intellectual capital and innovation (2017, background): “This stock of institutionalized knowledge and codified experience can increase innovation because the production of new products, processes or methods usually involves combining and applying different pieces of existing knowledge (Fleming & Sorenson, 2004).”
Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers (2013, background): “Second, the relatively more refined scientific knowledge of inventors with a science education is likely to provide them with the equivalent of a map in technology searches, that is, a stylized presentation of the technology area that is being searched (Fleming and Sorenson 2004).”
Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: the power of analogy (2005, background): “Fleming and Sorenson (2001, 2004) have found The NK structure highlights the interdependency among choices.”
The Use of Knowledge for Technological Innovation Within Diversified Firms (2007, methodology): “To control for the fact that patents linked to basic scientific research have a greater impact, we created a dummy variable for cite to scientific publication, which equaled 1 if a patent referenced any nonpatent precursor (Fleming & Sorenson, 2004).”