Serendipity arrangements for exapting science-based innovations

Academy of Management Perspectives

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 125-140

  Garud, Raghu ^a   Gehman, Joel ^b   Giuliani, Antonio Paco ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042079648     PISSN: 15589080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amp.2016.0138     Document Type: Article

References (118)

1. Abbott, A. (2005). Linked ecologies: States and universities as environments for professions. Sociological Theory, 23, 245-274.
2. Allen, T., & Henn, G. (2007). The organization and architecture of innovation. Burlington, MA: Elsevier.
3. Allen, T. J. (1970). Communication networks in R&D laboratories. R & D Management, 1(1), 14-21.
4. Andriani, P., Ali, A., & Mastrogiorgio, M. (2017). Measuring exaptation and its impact on innovation, search, and problem solving. Organization Science. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2017.1116
5. Andriani, P., & Cattani, G. (2016). Exaptation as source of creativity, innovation, and diversity: Introduction to the special section. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25, 115-131.
6. Baker, T., & Nelson, R. E. (2005). Creating something from nothing: Resource construction through entrepreneurial bricolage. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50, 329-366.
7. Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs, 28, 801-831.
8. Bartel, C. A., & Garud, R. (2003). Narrative knowledge in action: Adaptive abduction as a mechanism for knowledge creation and exchange in organizations. In M. Easterby-Smith & M. A. Lyles (Eds.), The Blackwell handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management (pp. 324-342). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
9. Baverman, L. (2013, May 8). Chicago's 1871 co-working space helped 225 startups in year one. Upstart Business Journal.
10. Berends, H., Garud, R., Debackere, K., & Weggeman, M. (2011). Thinking along: A process for tapping into knowledge across boundaries. International Journal of Technology Management, 53(1), 69-88.
11. Beunza, D. (2007). In praise of ambiguity: A commentary on exaptation. European Management Review, 4, 157-159.
12. Boden, D. (1994). Business of talk: Organizations in action. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press.
13. Boltanski, L., & Thévenot, L. (2006). On justification. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
14. Bonifati, G., & Villani, M. (2013). Exaptation in innovation processes: Theory and models. In A. Grandori (Ed.), Handbook of economic organization: Integrating economic and organization theory (pp. 172-192). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
15. Borup, M., Brown, N., Konrad, K., & Lente, H. V. (2006). The sociology of expectations in science and technology. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 18(3-4), 285-298.
16. Bruner, J. (1986). Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
17. Bruner, J. (1991). The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry, 18, 1-21.
18. Callon, M. (1986). Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St. Brieuc Bay. In J. Law (Ed.), Power, action and belief (pp. 196-233). Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
19. Callon, M. (2008). Economic markets and the rise of interactive agencements: From prosthetic agencies to habilitated agencies. In T. Pinch & R. Swedberg (Eds.), Living in a material world: Economic sociology meets science and technology studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Callon, M., Lascoumes, P., & Barthe, Y. (2009). Acting in an uncertain world: An essay on technical democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
21. Callon, M., & Latour, B. (1981). Unscrewing the big leviathan: How actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. In K. Knorr-Cetina & A. V. Cicourel (Eds.), Advances in social theory and methodology (pp. 277-303). Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
22. Cattani, G. (2005). Preadaptation, firm heterogeneity, and technological performance: A study on the evolution of fiber optics, 1970-1995. Organization Science, 16, 563-580.
23. Cattani, G. (2006). Technological pre-adaptation, speciation, and emergence of new technologies: How Corning invented and developed fiber optics. Industrial and Corporate Change, 15, 285-318.
24. Cattani, G. (2008). Reply to Dew's (2007) commentary: “Preadaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: A comment on Cattani (2006). Industrial and Corporate Change, 17(3), 585-596.
25. Chesbrough, H. W. (2003). Open innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
26. Chesbrough, H., & Chen, E. L. (2013). Recovering abandoned compounds through expanded external IP licensing. California Management Review, 55(4), 83-101.
27. Clarysse, B., Mosey, S., & Lambrecht, I. (2009). New trends in technology management education: A view from Europe. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(3), 427-443.
28. Clemons, S. (2016, October 6). Big bets: Energy. What's next? AtlanticLIVE. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/nf86UVvvYr0.
29. Collins, H. M., & Evans, R. (2002). The third wave of science studies: Studies of expertise and experience. Social Studies of Science, 32(2), 235-296.
30. Cornelissen, J. P., & Clarke, J. S. (2010). Imagining and rationalizing opportunities: Inductive reasoning and the creation and justification of new ventures. Academy of Management Review, 35, 539-557.
31. Cozzens, S. E., & Gieryn, T. F. (1990). Theories of science in society. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
32. Cunha, M. P. E., Clegg, S. R., & Mendonça, S. (2010). On serendipity and organizing. European Management Journal, 28(5), 319-330.
33. Denrell, J., Fang, C., & Winter, S. G. (2003). The economics of strategic opportunity. Strategic Management Journal, 24(10), 977-990.
34. de Rond, M., & Thietart, R.-A. (2007). Choice, chance, and inevitability in strategy. Strategic Management Journal, 28(5), 535-551.
35. de Saussure, F. (1983). Course in general linguistics. LaSalle, IL: Open Court.
36. de Vladar, H. P., Santos, M., & Szathmáry, E. (2017). Grand views of evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(5), 324-334.
37. Dew, N. (2009). Serendipity in entrepreneurship. Organization Studies, 30, 735-753.
38. Dew, N., Sarasvathy, S. D., & Venkataraman, S. (2004). The economic implications of exaptation. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14, 69-84.
39. Dudley, J. T., Deshpande, T., & Butte, A. J. (2011). Exploiting drug-disease relationships for computational drug repositioning. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 12(4), 303-311.
40. Einstein, A., Born, M., & Born, H. (1971). The Born-Einstein letters: Correspondence between Albert Einstein and
41. Max and Hedwig Born from 1916-1955, with commentaries by Max Born. Born, Irene (trans.). New York: Walker and Company.
42. Etzkowitz, H., & Leydesdorff, L. (2000). The dynamics of innovation: From national systems and “mode 2” to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations. Research Policy, 29, 109-123.
43. Ferraro, F., Etzion, D., & Gehman, J. (2015). Tackling grand challenges pragmatically: Robust action revisited. Organization Studies, 36, 363-390.
44. Fini, R., Grimaldi, R., Santoni, S., & Sobrero, M. (2011). Complements or substitutes? The role of universities and local context in supporting the creation of academic spin-offs. Research Policy, 40, 1113-1127.
45. Fini, R., Lacetera, N., & Shane, S. (2010). Inside or outside the IP system? Business creation in academia. Research Policy, 39, 1060-1069.
46. Fortwengel, J., Schüßler, E., & Sydow, J. (2017). Studying organizational creativity as process: Fluidity or duality? Creativity and Innovation Management, 26(1), 5-16.
47. Garud, R., Gehman, J., & Giuliani, A. P. (2016). Technological exaptation: A narrative approach. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25, 149-166.
48. Garud, R., Gehman, J., & Karunakaran, A. (2014). Boundaries, breaches, and bridges: The case of Climategate. Research Policy, 43, 60-73.
49. Garud, R., Gehman, J., & Kumaraswamy, A. (2011). Complexity arrangements for sustained innovation: Lessons from 3M Corporation. Organization Studies, 32, 737-767.
50. Garud, R., & Karnøe, P. (2003). Bricolage versus breakthrough: Distributed and embedded agency in tech-nologyentrepreneurship.ResearchPolicy,32,277-300.
51. Garud, R., & Nayyar, P. R. (1994). Transformative capacity: Continual structuring by intertemporal technology transfer. Strategic Management Journal, 15, 365-385.
52. Garud, R., Nayyar, P. R., & Shapira, Z. B. (1997). Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights. In R. Garud, P. R. Nayyar, & Z. B. Shapira (Eds.), Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights (pp. 3-10). New York: Cambridge University Press.
53. Gieryn, T. F. (1983). Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review, 48, 781-795.
54. Gieryn, T. F. (1999). Cultural boundaries of science: Credibility on the line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
55. Gintoff, V. (2016, March 23). SkyCool Systems develops technique to cool buildings using the coldness of outer space. ArchDaily. Retrieved from http://www.archdaily.com/784335/skycool-systems-develops-
56. technique-to-cool-buildings-using-the-coldness-of-outer-space
57. Gould, S. J. (1991). Exaptation: A crucial tool for an evolu-tionarypsychology.JournalofSocialIssues,47(3),43-65.
58. Gould, S. J. (2002). The structure of evolutionary theory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
59. Gould, S. J., & Vrba, E. S. (1982). Exaptation: A missing term in the science of form. Paleobiology, 8, 4-15.
60. Huston, L., & Sakkab, N. (2006). Connect and develop. Harvard Business Review, 84(3), 58-66.
61. Irvine, J., & Martin, B. R. (1984). Foresight in science: Picking the winners. Dover, NH: Pinter.
62. Jasanoff, S. S. (1987). Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science. Social Studies of Science, 17, 195-230.
63. Jensen, R., & Thursby, M. (2001). Proofs and prototypes for sale: The licensing of university inventions. American Economic Review, 91, 240-259.
64. Karnøe, P., & Garud, R. (2012). Path creation: Co-creation of heterogeneous resources in the emergence of the Danish wind turbine cluster. European Planning Studies, 20(5), 733-752.
65. Katzenstein, L. (2001). Viagra (sildenafil citrate): The remarkable story of the discovery and launch. New York: Medical Information Press.
66. Kaufmann, A., & Tödtling, F. (2001). Science-industry interaction in the process of innovation: The importance of boundary-crossing between systems. Research Policy, 30, 791-804.
67. Kelley, T. (2007). The art of innovation: Lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm. New York: Doubleday.
68. Knorr-Cetina, K. (1999). Epistemic cultures: How the sciences make knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
69. Koestler, A. (1964). The act of creation. London: Arkana.
70. Kuljanic, N., & McCormack, S. (2016, March 18). Quantum technologies or how microscopic things can change our lives. European Parliamentary Research Service Blog. Retrieved from https://epthinktank.eu/2016/03/18/quantum-technologies-or-how-microscopic-things-can-change-our-lives.
71. Latour, B. (2004). Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical Inquiry, 30, 225-248.
72. Lefsrud, L. M., & Meyer, R. E. (2012). Science or science fiction? Professionals' discursive construction of climate change. Organization Studies, 33, 1477-1506.
73. Levin, R. C., Klevorick, A. K., Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1987). Appropriating the returns from industrial research and development. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 18(3), 783-831.
74. Levine, R. N. (2008). A geography of time: On tempo, culture, and the pace of life. New York: Basic Books.
75. Levinthal, D. A. (1998). The slow pace of rapid technological change: Gradualism and punctuation in technological change. Industrial and Corporate Change, 7, 217-247.
76. Lifshitz-Assaf, H. (2017). Dismantling knowledge boundaries at NASA: From problem solvers to solution seekers. Administrative Science Quarterly. Retrieved from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_ id52431717
77. Lindahl, L. (1988). Spence Silver: A scholar and a gentleman. 3M Today, 15(1), 12-17.
78. Löfsten, H., & Lindelöf, P. (2002). Science parks and the growth of new technology-based firms: Academic-industry links, innovation and markets. Research Policy, 31, 859-876.
79. Lundvall, B.-?. (2007). National innovation systems-analytical concept and development tool. Industry and Innovation, 14(1), 95-119.
80. Markman, G. D., Siegel, D. S., & Wright, M. (2008). Research and technology commercialization. Journal of Management Studies, 45, 1401-1423.
81. Merton, R. K., & Barber, E. (2004). The travels and adventures of serendipity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
82. Mokyr, J. (2000). Evolutionary phenomena in technical change. In J. Ziman (Ed.), Technological innovation as an evolutionary process (pp. 52-65). New York: Cambridge University Press.
83. Morgan, G. (1993). Imaginization: New mindsets of seeing, organizing and managing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
84. Mosey, S., Wright, M., & Clarysse, B. (2012). Transforming traditional university structures for the knowledge economy through multidisciplinary institutes. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 36, 587-607.
85. Mulder, K., Ferrer, D., & van Lente, H. (2011). What is sustainable technology? Perceptions, paradoxes and possibilities. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
86. Murray, F. (2004). The role of academic inventors in entrepreneurial firms: Sharing the laboratory life. Research Policy, 33, 643-659.
87. Nayak, P. R., & Ketteringham, J. M. (1986). Breakthroughs! New York: Rawson Associates.
88. In Nelson, R. R. (Ed.). (1993). National innovation systems: A comparative analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.
89. O'Kane, C., Mangematin, V., Geoghegan, W., & Fitzgerald, C. (2015). University technology transfer offices: The search for identity to build legitimacy. Research Policy, 44, 421-437.
90. Ostrom, J. H. (1974). Archaeopteryx and the origin of flight. Quarterly Review of Biology, 49, 27-47.
91. Peirce, C. S. (1965). Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (Vol. 1-8). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
92. Perkmann, M., et al. (2013). Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university-industry relations. Research Policy, 42, 423-442.
93. Phan, P. H., Siegel, D. S., & Wright, M. (2005). Science parks and incubators: Observations, synthesis and future Research. Journal of Business Venturing, 20, 165-182.
94. Pinch, T. J., & Bijker, W. E. (1987). The social construction of facts and artefacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. In W. E. Bijker, T. P. Hughes & T. J. Pinch (Eds.), Social construction of technological systems (pp. 17-50). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
95. Rao, H., Monin, P., & Durand, R. (2005). Border crossing: Bricolage and the erosion of categorical boundaries in French gastronomy. American Sociological Review, 70, 968-991.
96. Rasmussen, E., & Borch, O. J. (2010). University capabilities in facilitating entrepreneurship: A longitudinal study of spin-off ventures at mid-range universities. Research Policy, 39, 602-612.
97. Rasmussen, E., & Wright, M. (2015). How can universities facilitate academic spin-offs? An entrepreneurial competency perspective. Journal of Technology Transfer, 40(5), 782-799.
98. Ricoeur, P. (1984). Time and narrative. Blamey, K., & Pellauer, D. (trans.). (Vol. 1). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
99. Ricoeur, P. (1986). Time and narrative. Blamey, K., & Pellauer, D. (trans.). (Vol. 2). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
100. Ricoeur, P. (1988). Time and narrative. Blamey, K., & Pellauer, D. (trans.). (Vol. 3). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
101. Samila, S., & Sorenson, O. (2010). Venture capital as a catalyst to commercialization. Research Policy, 39, 1348-1360.
102. Sauermann, H., & Stephan, P. (2012). Conflicting logics? A multidimensional view of industrial and academic science. Organization Science, 24, 889-909.
103. Sawyer, R. K. (2003). Improvised dialogues. Westport, CT: Ablex.
104. Seligman, M. E. P., Railton, P., Baumeister, R. F., & Sripada, C. (2016). Homo prospectus. New York: Oxford University Press.
105. Shaw, G., Brown, R., & Bromiley, P. (1998). Strategic stories: How 3M is rewriting business planning. Harvard Business Review, 76(3), 41-50.
106. Siegel, D. S., Waldman, D., & Link, A. (2003). Assessing the impact of organizational practices on the relative productivity of university technology transfer offices: An exploratory study. Research Policy, 32, 27-48.
107. Teece, D. J. (1987). The competitive challenge: Strategies for industrial innovation and renewal. Pensacola, FL: Ballinger Publishing.
108. 3M. (2002). A century of innovation: The 3M story. St. Paul, MN: 3M Company.
109. Tsoukas, H. (2009). A dialogical approach to the creation of new knowledge in organizations. Organization Science, 20, 941-957.
110. Tuertscher, P., Garud, R., & Kumaraswamy, A. (2014). Justification and interlaced knowledge at ATLAS, CERN. Organization Science, 25(6), 1579-1608.
111. Usher, A. P. (1954). A history of mechanical inventions (rev.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
112. von Hippel, E. (2005). Democratizing innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
113. Weick, K. E. (1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
114. White, M. (2016, August 18). Could the answer to Zika already be sitting behind the counter at your CVS? Pacific Standard. Retrieved from https://psmag.com/ could-the-answer-to-zika-already-be-sitting-behind-the-counter-at-your-cvs-b757ee588d7a
115. Wynne, B. (1989). Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A case study in communicating scientific information. Environment, 31, 10-39.
116. Raghu Garud (rgarud@psu.edu) is the Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Management and Organization and research director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Pennsylvania State University. His research explores the emergence of novelty and its adoption. Specifically, he is interested in understanding how new ideas emerge, are valued, and become institutionalized. He is currently co-editing a Journal of Management Studies special issue on Managing in the Age of Disruptions.
117. Joel Gehman (jgehman@ualberta.ca) is an assistant professor of strategic management and organization and Nova Faculty Fellow at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta. His research examines strategic, technological, and institutional responses to sustainability and values concerns. Examples include values work, robust action strategies, social license to operate, and category promotion.
118. Antonio Paco Giuliani (a.giuliani@ieseg.fr) is an associate professor at the IÉSEG School of Management. His research investigates how entrepreneurs develop new ideas and new ventures, and their interplay with institutional environments.