Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: Technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1717-1731

  Gilsing, Victor ^b   Nooteboom, Bart ^b   Vanhaverbeke, Wim ^c   Duysters, Geert ^d   van den Oord, Ad ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Innovation; Interfirm collaboration; Technological distance; Technological exploration

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; BETWEENNESS CENTRALITIES; EMBEDDEDNESS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL TESTS; EXPLORATION TASKS; INNOVATION POTENTIALS; INTERFIRM COLLABORATION; NETWORK DENSITIES; NETWORK EMBEDDEDNESS; NETWORK POSITIONS; ONE HANDS; TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCES; TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLORATION; TWO DIMENSIONS;

EID: 55549137025     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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