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Sub-theme 33:

Organizing Innovation by Collaborating: Exploring Inter-Organizational Relationships for Research and Technology Development

 

Convenors:

Bart Nooteboom
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
b.nooteboom@uvt.nl

Markus Perkmann
Loughborough University
m.perkmann@lboro.ac.uk

Erik Stam
University of Cambridge (UK)
fcs28@cam.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30

Patricia Wolf, Sebastian Späth and Stefan Häfliger
The role of communal resources for innovation in firms
Discussant: Zeynep Erden

Georg von Krogh, Zeynep Erden and Seonwoo Kim
Knowledge sharing in inter-organizational communities: The role of "community building", "knowledge activist" and "leadership"
Discussant: Guy Parmentier

Mehmet Gencer and Beyza Oba
Dual process of cooperation and competition in open innovation communities: A case study on the Eclipse project
Discussant: Patricia Wolf
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30

Pascale Trompette, Valérie Chanal and Cédric Péllissier
Crowdsourcing as a way to access external knowledge for innovation: Control, incentive and coordination in hybrid forms of innovation
Discussant: Mehmet Gencer

Guy Parmentier
Managing user community: Oxymoron of inaction
Discussant: Gernot Grabher

Gernot Grabher, Oliver Ibert and Saskia Flohr
Collaborator, competitor or victim? The customer in the new knowledge ecology of innovation
Discussant: Valérie Chanal
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30

Janet E.L. Bercovitz and Maryann P. Feldman
The mechanisms of collaboration in inventive teams: Geography, social networks or contractual relationships
Discussant: Hille Bruns

Hille Bruns
Scientific collaboration in collaborative research projects
Discussant: Erik Stam

Erik Stam and Elisabeth Garnsey
High-tech clusters in decline: The Cambridge case
Discussant: Janet Bercovitz
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30

Markus Perkmann, Zella King and Stephen Pavelin
Picking your partners: The effect of faculty quality on university-industry relationships
Discussant: Arend Zomer

Arend Zomer
Do spin-off companies make the academics' heads spin?
Discussant: Surya Mahdi

Pablo D'Este, Surya Mahdi and Andy Neely
How do research profiles affect the inclination of academic researchers to become innovators?
Discussant: Markus Perkmann
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45

Mark Ebers and Indre Maurer
Organizational and relational preconditions for inter-organizational learning in project-based organizations
Discussant: Henrik Bresman

Henrik Bresman
A multimethod field study of external learning activities and performance in innovation teams
Discussant: Alessandra Carlone

Giuseppe Soda and Alessandra Carlone
Deviating from alters, past experiences and industry dominant designs: Multilevel networks and node attributes as antecedents of innovation
Discussant: Mark Ebers
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30

Simcha Jong
Academic institutions and innovation networks in new industrial fields: Berkeley and Stanford after the rise of biotechnology
Discussant: Mike Bresnen

Michael Bresnen, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell and Maxine Robertson
Searching for the 'Dark Matter' of interactive innovation in the biomedical field
Discussant: Ithai Stern

Ithai Stern and Janet Dukerich
Reputation of chief scientists and the choice to form an alliance
Discussant: Simcha Jong
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45

Jan Hohberger and Pedro Parada
Learning speed: A comparison of organizational and geographic settings
Discussant: Daniëlle Cloodt

Daniëlle Cloodt
Multicausal relationships between R&D partnership, positional embeddedness and innovative performance
Discussant: Jan Hohberger


Bart Nooteboom
Concluding reflections

 

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