Selective search, sectoral patterns, and the impact on product innovation performance
By C. Köhler, W. Sofka, Christoph Grimpe. 2012
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The shift toward more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic in recent academic and practitioner discussions. Firms must connect their in-house R&D activities with external partners, such as leading customers or universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define where to search for valuable knowledge in its environment. In this paper we argue that knowledge search has to reflect the heterogeneity of various knowledge sources with regard to the knowledge they can provide and how these sources can be activated. We hypothesize that search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation success with new-to-market versus imitated products. Moreover, we explore the effect of these types of knowledge search within different sectoral patterns of innovation. Our empirical analysis rests on a sample of almost 5000 firms from five Western European countries. The results support our hypotheses and highlight the potentials and shortcomings of different types of knowledge search.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- How environmental regulations affect innovation in the Australian oil and gas industry: going beyond the Porter Hypothesis (2014, unknown): “INCREMENTAL innovations indicate at least one innovation was only new-to-the-firm (and not to the industry) (Köhler et al., 2012).”
- Returns to alliance portfolio diversity : The relative effects of partner diversity on firm’s innovative performance and productivity (2014, unknown): “These studies investigate the extent to which different alliance types lead to improvement in fi rm's performance outcomes (e.g., Belderbos, Carree, & Lokshin, 2004; Köhler, Sofka, & Grimpe, 2012; Laursen & Salter, 2006; Salge, Farchi, Barrett, & Dopson, 2013).”
- Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity (2020, background): “The notion of externalknowledge search has been noted as a crucial mechanism for developing innovation activities and for helping firms to evolve (Köhler et al., 2012).”