Structural Differentiation and Its Implications-Core/Periphery Structure of the Technological Network

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-342

  Weng, Calvin ^a   Daim, Tugrul U ^b  

^a TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Core periphery structure; Exploitation; Exploration; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873248178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18687873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-011-0048-5     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Baum JAC, Ingram P (2002) Interorganizational learning and network organization: toward a behavioral theory of the interfirm. In: Augier M, March JG (eds) The Economics of Choice, Change and Organization: Essays in Memory of Richard M. Cyert. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp 191-218.
2. Borgatti SP, Everett MG (1999) Models of core/periphery structures. Soc Netw 21: 375-395.
3. Breschi, S. Lissoni, F (2005) Knowledge networks from patent data: methodological issues and research targets, in Henk F. Moed, Wolfgang Glänzel and Ulrich Schmoch (Eds.). Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research, the Use of Publication and Patent Statistics in Studies of S& T Systems. Springer, The Netherlands, 613-643.
4. Calero C, van Leeuwen TN, Tijssen RJW (2007) Research cooperation within the bio-pharmaceutical industry: network analyses of copublications within and between firms. Scientometrics 71: 87-99.
5. Cantner U, Graf H (2006) The network of innovators in Jena: an application of social network analysis. Res Policy 35: 463-480.
6. Castiglionesi, F. Navarro, N (2008) Optimal Fragile Financial Networks. Second Singapore International Conference on Finance 2008. EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper.
7. Chen YS, Chang KC (2010) The relationship between a firm's patent quality and its market value-the case of US pharmaceutical industry. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 77(1): 20-33.
8. Choi C, Kim S, Park Y (2007) A patent-based cross impact analysis for quantitative estimation of technological impact: the case of information and communication technology. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74(8): 1296-1314.
9. Coleman J (1988) Social capital in the creation of human capital. Am J Sociol 94: 95-120.
10. Duysters GM, Hagedoorn J, Lemmens CEAV (2003) The effect of alliance block membership on innovative performance. Revue d'Économie Industrielle 103: 59-70, Special Issue on 'La Morphogénèse des Réseaux'.
11. Freeman LC (1979) Centrality in social networks: I conceptual clarification. Soc Netw 1: 215-239.
12. García MAS, Ramos CC (2006) Core/periphery structure models: an alternative methodological proposal. Soc Netw 28: 442-448.
13. Griliches Z (1990) Patent statistics as economic indicators: a survey. J Econ Lit 28: 1661-1707.
14. Haythornthwaite C (1996) Social network analysis: an approach and technique for the study of information exchange. LISR 18: 323-342.
15. Heinze, T (2006) Emergence of Nano S& T in Germany: Network, Formation and Company Performance, Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation System and Policy Analysis, No 7/2006.
16. Joglekar, N (2005) A Behavioral View of Core-Periphery Dynamics in Social Networks. Conference Proceedings, The 23 rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 17-21, 2005, Boston.
17. Katila R, Ahuja G (2002) Something old, something new: a longitudinal study of search behavior and new product introduction. Acad Manage J 45: 1183-1194.
18. Lee S, Yoon B, Lee C, Park J (2009) Business planning based on technological capabilities: patent analysis for technology-driven roadmapping. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76(6): 769-786.
19. Leydesdorff L, Vaughan L (2006) Co-occurrence matrices and their applications in information science: extending ACA to the Web environment. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol 57(12): 1616-1628.
20. Licoppe C, Smoreda Z (2005) Are social networks technologically embedded? How networks are changing today with changes in communication technology. Soc Netw 27(4): 317-335.
21. March JG (1991) Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organ Sci 2: 71-81.
22. Moody J (2001) Peer influence groups: identifying dense clusters in large networks. Soc Netw 2: 261-283.
23. Narin F (1995) Patent as indicators for the evaluation of industrial research output. Scientomertics 34(3): 489-496.
24. Podolny JM, Stuart TE, Hanan MT (1996) Networks, knowledge, and niches: competition in the worldwide semiconductor industry, 1984-1991. Am J Sociol 102(3): 659-689.
25. Podolny JM, Stuart TE (1995) A role-based ecology of technological change. Am J Sociol 100: 1224-1260.
26. Ramlogan R, Mina A, Tampubolon G, Metcalfe J (2007) Networks of knowledge: the distributed nature of medical innovation. Scientometrics 70: 459-489.
27. Rank C, Rank O, Wald A (2006) Integrated versus core-periphery structures in regional biotechnology networks. Eur Manag J 24(1): 73-85.
28. Scott J (2002) Social Network Analysis: A Handbook, 2nd edn. Sage Publications, London.
29. Sternitzke C, Bartkowski A, Schramm R (2008) Visualizing patent statistics by means of social network analysis tools. World Patent Inf 28(2): 115-131.
30. Stuart TE (1998) Network position and propensities to collaborate: an investigation of strategic alliance formation in a high-technology industry. Adm Sci Q 43: 668-698.
31. Stuart TE (1999) Interorganizational alliances and the performance of firms. Adm Sci Q 44: 315-349.
32. Thompson P (2006) Patent citations and the geography of knowledge spillovers: evidence from inventor- and examiner-added citations. Rev Econ Stat 88(2): 383-388.
33. Tsai W (2001) Knowledge transfer in intraorganizational networks: effects of network position and absorptive capacity on business unit innovation and performance. Acad Manage J 44(5): 996-1004.
34. Valente TW, Coronges KA, Stevens GD, Cousineau MR (2008) Collaboration and competition in a children's health initiative coalition: a network analysis. Eval Program Plann 31(4): 392-402.
35. Vanhaverbeke W, Gilsing V, Beerkens B, Duysters G (2009) The role of alliance network redundancy in the creation of core and non-core technologies. J Manag Stud 46(2): 215-244.
36. von Wartburg I, Teichert T, Rost K (2005) Inventive progress measured by multi-stage patent citation analysis. Res Policy 34: 1591-1607.
37. Wassermann, S. Faust, K (1994) Social network analysis: methods and applications. Cambridge University Press.
38. Yoon B, Park Y (2004) A text-mining-based patent network: analytical tool for high-technology trend. J High Technol Managem Res 15: 37-50.
39. Zaheer A, Bell GG (2005) Benefiting from network position: firm capabilities, structural holes, and performance. Strateg Manage J 26: 809-825.
40. Mina A, Ramlogan R, Tampubolon G, Metcalfe J (2007) Mapping evolutionary trajectories: applications to the growth and transformation of medical knowledge. Res Policy 36(5): 789-806.
41. Fontana R, Nuvolari A, Verspagen B (2009) Mapping technological trajectories as patent citation networks. An application to data communication standards. Economics of Innovation and New Technology Routledge 18(4): 311-336.
42. Verspagen B (2007) Mapping technological trajectories as patent citation networks: a study on the history of fuel cell research. Adv Complex Syst 10(1): 93-115.
43. Granovetter M (1985) Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness. Am J Sociol 91: 481-510.
44. Burt RS (1992) Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
45. Gulati R, Gargiulo M (1999) Where do interorganizational networks come from? Am J Sociol 104(5): 1439-1493.
46. Hall B, Jaffe A, Trajtenberg M (2000) Market Value and Patent Citations: A First Look. NBER Working Paper Series, Cambridge, MA.
47. Baum JAC, Calabrese T, Silverman BS (2000) Don't go it alone: alliance network composition and startups' performance in Canadian biotechnology. Strateg Manage J 21: 267-294.
48. Boss M, Elsinger H, Summer M, Thurner S (2004) The network topology of the interbank market, Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Quantitative Finance 4: 1-8.
49. Duguet E, MacGarvie M (2005) How well do patent citations measure flows of technology? Evidence from French innovation surveys. J Econ Innov New Tech 14(5): 375-393.
50. Moody J, McFarland DA, Bender-DeMoll S (2005) Dynamic network visualization: methods for meaning with longitudinal network movies. Am J Sociol 110: 1206-1241.
51. Wagner CS (2005) Six case studies of international collaboration in science. Scientometrics 62: 3-26.