R&D partnership portfolios and the inflow of technological knowledge

H.T.W. Frankort; J. Hagedoorn; W.A. Letterie

doi:10.1093/icc/dtr045

R&D partnership portfolios and the inflow of technological knowledge

H.T.W. Frankort^*
, J. Hagedoorn
, W.A. Letterie

^*Corresponding author for this work

Organisation,Strategy & Entrepreneurship

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-537
Number of pages	31
Journal	Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume	21
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtr045
Publication status	Published - Apr 2012

Keywords

C23
D22
D83
L14
O32
COUNT DATA MODELS
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
PATENT CITATIONS
INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION
FIRM PERFORMANCE
SOCIAL-STRUCTURE
INNOVATION
PATTERNS
INDUSTRY

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