Navigating the technology landscape of innovation

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 15-23

  Fleming, Lee ^a   Sorenson, Olav ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (10)

1. See also C. Baldwin and K. Clark, "Managing in an Age of Modularity," Harvard Business Review 75 (September-October 1997): 84-95.
2. S. Thomke, "Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation," Harvard Business Review 79 (February 2001): 66-75.
3. L. Fleming and O. Sorenson, "Science as a Map in Technological Search," working paper 02-096, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002.
4. D. Harhoff, F. Narin, F. Scherer and K. Vopel, "Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Inventions," Review of Economics and Statistics 81 (August 1999): 511-515.
5. L. Zucker, M. Darby and M. Brewer, "Intellectual Human Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises," American Economic Review 88 (March 1998): 290-306.
6. L. Fleming, "Finding the Organizational Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: The Story of Hewlett-Packard's Thermal Inkjet," Industrial and Corporate Change 11 (November 2002): 1059-1084;
7. and, for an account of how Inchiro Endo also invented the Inkjet at Canon, independent of H-P's efforts, see A. Robinson and S. Stern, "Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen" (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1997).
8. S. Stern, "Do Scientists Pay To Be Scientists?" working paper 7410, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.
9. O. Sorenson and L. Fleming, "Science and the Diffusion of Knowledge," working paper 02-095, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002.
10. For further details on IBM's story, see: K. Lim, "The Many Faces of Absorptive Capacity: Spillovers of Copper Interconnect Technology for Semiconductor Chips," working paper 4110, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.