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An exploratory study of learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios - HEIMERIKS, K.; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim; DUYSTERS, Geert
This study assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms in alliance portfolios. Investigating two distinct types of learning mechanisms (i.e. integrating and institutionalizing mechanisms), the results show that different learning mechanisms have different performance effects at distinct levels of alliance experience.The results are based on a detailed survey among alliance managers and vice-presidents of 192 firms reporting on
over 3400 alliances formed over the period 19972001.The main lesson from this study is
that firms can deliberately develop their alliance capabilities by using integrating mechanisms to transfer prior experiences.
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The effects of inter-industry and country difference in supplier relationships on radical innovations - Li, Ying; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim
Radical innovations are critical driving forces for firms to engage in corporate growth and new business development. Innovating firms are increasingly generating new knowledge in collaboration with partners. In this paper, we analyze how the knowledge differences between the innovating firms and their suppliers in Canada are likely to result in radical innovations that are new to the world. The knowledge difference is decomposed into two dimensions: the industrial dimension and the geographic dimension in national context. Using the Canadian Innovation database, we found the inter-industry difference has a positive effect and the country difference has a negative effect on...
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Inter-firm interaction for technology-based radical innovation - VERCAUTEREN, Anne
The central aim of this PhD research is to study how inter-firm interactions contribute to the technology-based radical innovation process. The aggregated research gradually demonstrates the importance of business networks in the innovation process. A first study provides a rich account of how customer firms contribute to technology-based radical innovation in every phase of the innovation process. The second study indicates that such interaction can evolve into a relatively balanced cooperation between a customer and a supplier that share innovation as a joint aim. This study analyses how radical technological innovation benefits from uncertainty reducing effects in the customer/supplier cooperation....
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How customer interaction improves technology-driven new product development in industrial markets - VERCAUTEREN, Anne
This paper shows how customer interaction in industrial markets enables the creation of a value offer tailored to the target markets needs. The resource dependence theory helps understand how in technology driven environments early customer interaction provides direction to research and development efforts. The empirical part of the paper is a detailed description of a development project in a large chemicals company. Interactions with various types of firms in the target market for the product under development are discussed and analyzed. The driver for these interactions is a mutual dependence.
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Understanding the advantages of open innovation practices in corporate venturing in terms op real options - Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Van de Vrande, Vareska; Chesbrough, Henry
Part of the advantages of using open innovation (compared to closed innovation) in corporate venturing can be explained by applying the real options approach. Open innovation in risk-laden activities such as corporate venturing has the following advantages: (i) benefits from early involvement in new technologies or business opportunities; (ii) delayed financial commitment; (iii) early exits reducing the downward losses; and (iv) delayed exit in case it spins off a venture. We furthermore argue that these benefits do not automatically materialize. Innovative firms have to learn new skills and routines to develop the full 'real option' potential of open innovation practices.
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Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: Technological distance, betweenness centrality and density - Gilsing, Victor; Nooteboom, Bart; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Duysters, Geert; van den Oord, Ad
This paper aims to understand better the innovation potential of a firm's alliance network. Here we analyze the role of an alliance network in terms of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality)and total network density. We study how these three elements of an alliance network, separately and in combination, affect the 'twin tasks' in exploration, namely novelty creation on the one hand and its efficient absorption on the other hand. For an empirical test, we study technology-based alliance networks in the pharmaceutical, chemical and automotive industries. Our findings indicate that successful exploration indeed seems to require...
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External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice - VAN DE VRANDE, Vareska; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim; DUYSTERS, Geert
External knowledge sourcing is increasingly important for corporate entrepreneurship. In this study, we examine the effect of
external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing. We develop a number of
hypotheses about the impact of environmental turbulence, technological newness, technological distance and prior cooperation on
the choice between different governance modes. Data about external technology sourcing transactions in the pharmaceutical
industry do not provide evidence for a continuum from less to more integrated sourcing modes. However, we find that the ranking
depends on the type of uncertainty, indicating that firms tackle different types of uncertainty with different governance modes.
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Customer/supplier interaction during radical technological innovation: inhibitor or facilitator? - VERCAUTEREN, Anne
This paper builds an argumentation for the position that customer/supplier interaction facilitates radical technological innovation. The paper is basically conceptual in nature and organises arguments on three ever more specific levels. First, some theoretical misconceptions are addressed to create an unambiguous understanding of what falls within the scope of this paper and what does not. In spite of the limited amount of research into customer/supplier interaction for radical technological innovation, the scarce research findings do indicate that customer/supplier interaction facilitates radical technological innovation and that it is a subject worthy of further investigation. Second, arguments are drawn from extant literature...
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Recognising radical innovation: The importance of perspective and level of analysis - VERCAUTEREN, Anne
Radical innovation is known to differ drastically from incremental innovation, both in terms of process and outcome. This paper discusses how radical innovation can be recognised in a valid way. The presented logic is based on a longitudinal single case research. The research demonstrates that the link between an innovation project’s ex ante potential for radical innovation and the radical nature of its actual end result(s) may be too absolute in extant theory. This paper provides at least two important contributions. First, it is explained how ex ante and ex post identification of radical innovation take place according to different...
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Lead customer interaction during the commercialisation process of radical technologies - VERCAUTEREN, Anne
The radical innovation process initiated by a technology push differs
remarkably from the orderly incremental innovation process. The role and form of
customer interaction for one vary significantly according to innovation type. It is clear
that incremental innovations tend to be customer driven, but customer involvement in
the commercialization of breakthroughs is much more contested (Christensen 1997).
Nevertheless, several case studies and previous research show the potential value of
lead customer input for the commercialization of radical technologies (Jolly 1997).
The paper analyzes collaboration of innovating companies with industrial lead
customers during the different phases of technology commercialization. Access,
transfer and creation of knowledge are key processes in the...
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Marketing management within the multinational corporation: a multidisciplinary approach - VERCAUTEREN, Anne; MATTHYSSENS, Paul; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim
This paper presents a multi-disciplinary framework for the study of marketing management within the multinational corporation (MNC). Research domains of MNC management, the role of knowledge within the firm and international marketing is combined. We identify overlaps between the different domains and we clarify how these intersecting areas produce synergetic effects for further investigation of marketing management within the MNC. More specifically, we see potential in the knowledge related literature for the formulation of paradigmatic assumptions that serve as a basis for research on MNC management in an international marketing context.
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Radical versus non-radical inventions - SCHOENMAKERS, Wilfred; DUYSTERS, Geert; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim
This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify
those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical
inventions are very important for the economy as a whole and for the individual firm
performances, understanding what makes radical inventions differ from non-radical
inventions is very important.
For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on
patents. We used the number of forward patent citations per patent to identify radical from
non-radical inventions. For our analysis we used the backward patent citations per patent.
In order to test if the two groups we are considering are truly...
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Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges - van de Vrande, Vareska; de Jong, Jeroen P. J.; VANHAVERBEKE, Wim; de Rochemont, Maurice
Open innovation has so far been studied mainly in high-tech, Multinational enterprises. This exploratory paper investigates if open innovation practices are also applied by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing oil I database collected from 605 innovative SMEs in the Netherlands, we explore the incidence of and apparent trend towards open innovation. The survey furthermore focuses oil the motives and perceived challenges when SMEs adopt open innovation practices. Within the survey, open innovation is measured with eight innovation practices reflecting technology exploration and exploitation in SMEs. We find that the responding SMEs engage in many open innovation practices and have...
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