The present aims at understanding whether and how mastering scientific knowledge in team dynamics helps to develop technologies with high breadth of impact (i.e., technologies that can be applied to diverse domains). Specifically, the relationship between the presence of scientists within inventing teams and the generality of the technologies they generate is examined. Furthermore, we […]
Purpose – This research analyzes the emergence of general purpose technologies. Specifically, we examine the relationship between how broadly organizations search across diverse knowledge domains in the invention process (i.e., their search breadth) and the technological generality of resulting inventive outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – We use patent data in order to identify inventions developed in the […]
Purpose – In cultural industries, the innovation process is increasingly realized by a key inventor which is sustained by a dedicated team (e.g. Cillo and Verona 2008; Glaveanu and Lubart 2014). In fact, the key inventor, who remains central in cultural industries, needs to interact with a team in the cultural products development (Taylor and […]
Purpose – We aim at offering a deeper and more complete perspective on eco-innovations’ development in the field of low-carbon technologies, across different types of technological classes, geographical areas, industries, and considering a large time period. Accordingly, we aim at providing a comprehensive and unique overview of the evolution, and related policy initiatives, of a […]
Purpose – In the current context of economic crisis, there is an increasing need for new approaches for solving social problems without relying upon public resources. With this regard, social entrepreneurship has been arising as an important solution to develop social innovations and address social needs. Social entrepreneurs found new ventures that aim at solving […]
Purpose – This paper aims at evaluating the effects of the exploitation and exploration strategies on the economic and innovative performance of a local system of firms. Accordingly, this study embraces the exploration-exploitation dilemma (e.g., March, 1991; Benner and Tushman, 2003; Burgelman, 2002; Holmqvist, 2004; Katila and Ahuja, 2002) and differently from the extant literature […]