Innovation through exaptation and its determinants: The role of technological complexity, analogy making & patent scope

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1419-1435

  Mastrogiorgio, Mariano ^a   Gilsing, Victor ^b  

^a AIE University   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analogy; Complexity; Exaptation; Innovation; Patents; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INNOVATION;

ANALOGY; COMPLEXITY; EXAPTATION; PATENTS; RECOMBINATION;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84992303348     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.04.003     Document Type: Article

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