A failure trichotomy in knowledge exploration and exploitation

Research Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 819-831

  Gustafsson, Robin ^a   Autio, Erkko ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibited emergence; Market failure; Social construction of technology; Socio cognitive failure; System level inertia; Systems failure

Indexed keywords

INHIBITED EMERGENCE; MARKET FAILURE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY; SOCIO-COGNITIVE FAILURE; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEMS FAILURE;

COMMERCE; INNOVATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957670143     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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