Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent data

By Lee Fleming, Olav Sorenson. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Corporate venture capital portfolios and firm innovation (2016, positive): “Cognitive capacity constraints and limited experience with diverse knowledge domains reduces a firms’ ability to attend to and comprehend the interactions among increasingly dissimilar knowledge components (Fleming and Sorenson, 2001).”
Dynamic Creation: Extending the Radical Austrian Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, background): “Scholars in organization theory (Meyer et al. 2005) and strategy (Bromiley and Papenhausen 2003) have pointed out this contradiction and the problems it raises in the context of their own fields.”
Performance Differentials Between Diversifying Entrants and Entrepreneurial start-ups: A Complexity Approach (2009, methodology): “To investigate how pre-entry experience might confer performance advantages, we use an agent-based simulation approach that has been extensively used and tested in management research (Ethiraj & Levinthal, 2004; Fleming & Sorenson, 2001, 2004; Levinthal, 1997; Rivkin, 2000; Sorenson, 1997, 2003).”
The Geography of Complex Knowledge (2017, background): “Fleming and Sorenson (2001) offer a model of search-based, recombinant innovation that rests on the complexity of knowledge.”
Learning from What Others Have Learned from You: The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Originating Firms (2010, positive): “Because the originator has access to a working template that incorporates some of its own knowledge, the uncertainty associated with integrating this novel knowledge with its own knowledge declines (Fleming & Sorenson, 2001).”
Special Issue on Design and Development: Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search (2001, background): “Conceptualizing technological invention as search over interdependent landscapes implies a complexity catastrophe in technological evolution, as inventors face greater numbers of components and greater interdependence between them (Fleming and Sorenson 2001).”
Ready to Be Open? Explaining the Firm-Level Barriers to Benefiting from Openness to External Knowledge (2017, positive): “…is important: first, it enriches the in-sourcing firm’s knowledge pool by adding distinctive new variations, offering a wider range of choices to solve problems (March, 1991); second, it boosts innovation by enhancing combinatory search (e.g. Fleming and Sorenson, 2001; Nelson and Winter, 1982).”
Licensing-in fosters rapid invention! the effect of the grant-back clause and technological unfamiliarity (2012, background): “Patents are an incomplete measure in the sense that firms are less likely to patent process inventions and lower value inventions (Fleming and Sorenson, 2001; Levin et al., 1987).”
Modelling Bounded Rationality in Organizations: Progress and Prospects† (2015, background): “Using patent data, Fleming and Sorenson (2001) found that high levels of technical interdependencies reduce the usefulness of inventive efforts (i.e., tracking model results that show that exploitation is not a useful strategy in complex environments).”
Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition (2012, background): “Such relations can lead to boundary-spanning searches, often seen as necessary for successful innovation (Fleming and Sorenson 2001, Rosenkopf and Nerkar 2001).”
Open for Ideation: Individual-level Openness and Idea Generation in R&D (2012, background): “Exploiting only internal sources reduces the potential for combinatorial novelty required to support high levels of ideation (Fleming and Sorenson, 2001; Stuart and Podolny, 1996).”
Organization of Knowledge and Innovation: The Case of Finnish Business Services (2005, background): “Then the approach to innovation is a combination of complementary internal and external components of knowledge (Fleming and Sorensen, 2001 ).”
Science as a Map in Technological Search (2004, background): “inventions found through local search and the coupling of the components combined (Fleming and Sorenson, 2001).”
Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems (2002, background): “Consistent with the presence of such tradeoffs, Fleming and Sorenson (2001) show that intermediate levels of modularity tend to produce the most useful inventions.”