How Firm Organizations Adapt to SecureA Sustained Knowledge Transfer

New knowledge with potential commercial value is created, replicated, and transferred in adistributed manner. The highly systemic nature of knowledge production and the need for anyknowledge to be individually acquired and expressed in order to produce an effect, jointlyconstrain the dynamics of knowledge commercialization. This paper analyzes the nature of theseconstraints from an individualistic perspective, focusing particularly on the often neglectedentrepreneurial aspects of the knowledge transfer. It explains how the constraints are overcomeby organizational adaptations inside firms so that a sustained knowledge transfer into thecommercial sphere of the innovation system can be secured...