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Collaboration experience in the supply chain of knowledge and patent development
Manfredi BruccoleriAlessandra AllettoUsha RamanathanErica Mazzolasubject
Knowledge managementEmbeddednessStrategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectSupply chainSupply chain of knowledgeManagement Science and Operations ResearchIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering0502 economics and businessmedia_commonOpen innovationcollaboration experienceSupply chain managementbusiness.industry05 social sciencesComputer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSettore ING-IND/35 - Ingegneria Economico-GestionaleComputer Science Applicationsopen innovationStrategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementConceptual modelsocial capital050211 marketingBusiness050203 business & managementSocial capitaldescription
In this paper, we aim at understanding the role of collaboration experience in supply chains of knowledge (SCoK). The SCoK of a company is its supply chain not related to the flow of physical goods but to the flow of R&D commodities. R&D commodities are for example patents, technologies, research services, studies, and projects, and, in high-tech industries, their development and commercialisation are considered as important as real products. To accomplish our aim in this paper, we fulfil the following research objectives: (1) investigate the relationship between the collaboration experience in SCoK and the propensity of the firm to develop new patents; (2) examine how the structural embeddedness of the firm within its SCoK mediates this relationship. We ground our conceptual model on the supply chain, open innovation and social capital literatures and empirically test our hypotheses on a cross-sectional data-set of 208 biotech companies that have signed 612 SCoK agreements in the years 2006â2010. The key findings of this study are: first, accumulating experience in SCoK collaborations facilitates the development of new patents; second, being central and bridging structural holes within the SCoK are two means by which the experience in SCoK collaborations is translated into new patents.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2017-05-16 |