Customers involvement and firm absorptive capacity in radical innovation: The case of technological spin-offs

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 144-162

  Scaringella, Laurent ^a   Miles, Raymond E ^b   Truong, Yann ^c  

^a RENNES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Customers; Knowledge; New product development; Radical innovation; Spin off

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; COMMERCE; INNOVATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; CUSTOMERS; KNOWLEDGE; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RADICAL INNOVATION; SPIN OFF;

SALES;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; MARKET; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85009739638     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.005     Document Type: Article

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