Abstract
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1703-1716 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Strategic management journal |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 11 |
Early online date | 29 Aug 2013 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2014 |
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This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Funding: ESRC (award RES-062-23-2767).
Additional supporting information may be found in the online version of this article.
Keywords
- innovation linkages
- Ireland
- learning effects
- open innovation
- openness
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Learning from openness : the dynamics of breadth in external innovation linkages. / Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Vahter, Priit.
In: Strategic management journal, Vol. 35, No. 11, 01.2014, p. 1703-1716.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning from openness
T2 - the dynamics of breadth in external innovation linkages
AU - Love, James H.
AU - Roper, Stephen
AU - Vahter, Priit
N1 - This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Funding: ESRC (award RES-062-23-2767). Additional supporting information may be found in the online version of this article.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - We explore how openness in terms of external linkages generates learning effects, which enable firms to generate more innovation outputs from any given breadth of external linkages. Openness to external knowledge sources, whether through search activity or linkages to external partners in new product development, involves a process of interaction and information processing. Such activities are likely to be subject to a learning process, as firms learn which knowledge sources and collaborative linkages are most useful to their particular needs, and which partnerships are most effective in delivering innovation performance. Using panel data from Irish manufacturing plants, we find evidence of such learning effects: establishments with substantial experience of external collaborations in previous periods derive more innovation output from openness in the current period.
AB - We explore how openness in terms of external linkages generates learning effects, which enable firms to generate more innovation outputs from any given breadth of external linkages. Openness to external knowledge sources, whether through search activity or linkages to external partners in new product development, involves a process of interaction and information processing. Such activities are likely to be subject to a learning process, as firms learn which knowledge sources and collaborative linkages are most useful to their particular needs, and which partnerships are most effective in delivering innovation performance. Using panel data from Irish manufacturing plants, we find evidence of such learning effects: establishments with substantial experience of external collaborations in previous periods derive more innovation output from openness in the current period.
KW - innovation linkages
KW - Ireland
KW - learning effects
KW - open innovation
KW - openness
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DO - 10.1002/smj.2170
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JO - Strategic management journal
JF - Strategic management journal
SN - 0143-2095
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