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Industrial and Corporate ChangeVolume 21, Issue 2, April 2012, Article number dtr045, Pages 507-537

R&D partnership-portfolios and the inflow of technological knowledge(Article)(Open Access)

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  • aCass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, United Kingdom
  • bSchool of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands

Abstract

This article links research on parallel search and joint R&D to contribute a portfolio perspective to the study of knowledge flows within interfirm R&D partnerships. In a longitudinal analysis of firms engaged in R&D partnerships relating to information technology between 1975 and 1999, we show that the size of a firm's R&D partnership portfolio and its share of novel partners both have an inverted U-shaped effect on the inflow of technological knowledge from the firm's R&D partners. We also show how these direct effects vary as a function of the level of technological uncertainty within the portfolio. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

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GEOBASE Subject Index:firm sizeinformation technologypartnership approachresearch and developmentuncertainty analysis

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Stanford University
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    Part of this research was performed while the first author was a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), for which he acknowledges funding by METEOR (Maastricht University) and Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, and while the third author was a visiting scholar at SCANCOR (Stanford University).

  • ISSN: 09606491
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr045
  • Document Type: Article

  Frankort, H.T.W.; Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, United Kingdom;
© Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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