OLANDER, HEIDI; HURMELINNA-LAUKKANEN, PIA; VANHALA, MIKA - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 18 (2014) 06, pp. 1440012-1
Innovations have the potential to create value by generating rents (primary appropriability), or they can be used as … background knowledge for further innovations and value creation (generative appropriability). Because these possibilities exist …, primary and generative appropriability are complementarities rather than alternatives: Knowledge sharing with partners for new …