Publications

In organizational ecology, the focus is on the evolution of a population of organizations. Adopting a similar logic, we deal with the evolution of a population of related inventions. By employing a population perspective to technology, we aim to determine to what extent the pattern of technological growth can be attributed to the structural or systemic characteristics of the technology itself. Through an empirical investigation of patent data in ...

We analyse the patterns and determinants of technology alliance formation with partner firms from emerging economies with a focus on European firms alliance strategies. We examine to what extent European firms alliance formation with partners based in emerging economies is persistent that is, to what extent prior collaborative experience determines new alliance formation and we compare this pattern with alliance formation with developed country ...

Although central network positions have been associated with above average performance effects, an important void that still remains is how firms come to occupy a more central position in the first place. Whereas recently made exogenous explanations have shed some more light on aggregate changes in centrality, they remain silent on an endogenous understanding of how individual firms come to occupy a more central position. To address this, we ...

ABS TRACT Entry in new technological domains is essential for the long-term performance of firms. Therefore, it is important to understand the conditions that increase the likelihood that firms enter, and further explore, new technological domains. Some recent studies have started to unpack these issues by looking at the environmental conditions in a new technological domain that pull firms into it. In this paper, we complement these studies by ...

Current research stressed the role of established firms in the creation of breakthroughs. The role of interfirm collaboration has been discussed extensively regarding the innovative performance of firms, but remains understudied regarding breakthroughs. This paper aims to explain how established firms create breakthroughs by considering how and who to reach through external collaboration. How to reach is illustrated by different firm positions ...

We examine firms' propensity to adapt their R&D collaboration portfolio by establishing new types of R&D collaboration with different kinds of partners (suppliers, customers, competitors and universities & public research institutions). We argue that existing R&D collaboration with one of the two value chain partners (suppliers or customers) is associated with the formation of new R&D collaboration with the other value chain ...

Although central network positions have been associated with above average performance effects, an important void that still remains is how firms come to occupy a more central position in the first place. Whereas recently made exogenous explanations have shed some more light on aggregate changes in centrality, they remain silent on an endogenous understanding of how individual firms can come to occupy a more central position. To address this, we ...