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Exploration and Exploitation in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …

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Determinants of alliance portfolio complexity and its effect on innovative performance of companies

Duysters, Geert; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm's innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and...

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Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Learning through networks has been considered as an important research topic for several years now. Technological … learning is more and more based on a combination of internal and external learning and firms need to develop both technological … the rate of innovation for companies with small patent and alliance portfolios. However, when the patent portfolio and …

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Strategic Partnering with Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives and Treasures

Duysters, Geert; Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

In this paper we aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...

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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

also on the importance of alliances and an open innovation system for the development of radical inventions. …

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The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry

Duysters, Geert; Lemmens, Charmianne; Letterie, Wilko; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In particular, we expect that a firm's innovative performance depends partly on its position in specific network...

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On the Delivery of Pro-Poor Innovations: Managerial Lessons from Sanitation Activists in India

Ramani, Shyama; SadreGhazi, Shuan; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

expressions of demand and their mismatch with perceptions of the value of the innovation. It also identifies how activists go …', 'sustainable maintenance' and 'generation of knowledge, demand and innovation spillovers' in an endogenous fashion, providing an …

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Alliance block composition patterns in the microelectronics industry

Duysters, Geert; Lemmens, Charmianne - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

In this note we examine whether a position in a technology alliance block is accessible to everyone. It appears that partners are selected on the basis of distinctive attributes they have, which can inhibit outsiders to join these alliance groups. Our findings clearly indicate that alliance...

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External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Vrande, Vareska van de - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This study examines the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing. We develop a number of hypotheses about the impact of environmental turbulence, technological newness, technological distance and prior cooperation on the...

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Drivers of Brazilian foreign investments – technology seeking and technology exploiting as determinants of emerging FDI

Carvalho, Flavia; Duysters, Geert; Costa, Ionara - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the internationalization of firms, and whether if affects the destination of foreign investments. Emerging markets FDI is a much-debated topic these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is...

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