Paper Info
Title
Knowledge Sharing and Value Flow in the Software Industry: Searching the Patent Citation Network
Abstract
A firm's innovative capabilities depend on its ability to learn from the environment. To learn from the environment a firm must have access to external knowledge, and it must have the absorptive capacity to identify, assimilate and exploit such knowledge. While previous research recognized that firms must invest to acquire absorptive capacity, it assumed that access to knowledge spillovers is free, or a perfectly correlated component of R&D investments. We argue that a firm must also invest in developing organizational routines that search for and acquire access to knowledge spillover. In order to explore the relationship between own-knowledge development and search, we examine the relationship between software firms' R&D investments and their position within the patent citation network and their subsequent knowledge development and financial performance. The results show that a firm's position within the knowledge flow of the industry helps predict knowledge development and financial performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/HICSS.2005.379
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
d investment,knowledge flow,knowledge development,software firm,software industry,absorptive capacity,knowledge spillover,patent citation network,subsequent knowledge development,value flow,own-knowledge development,financial performance,external knowledge,environmental economics,investments,industrial relations,software performance,economic forecasting,intelligent networks
Knowledge sharing,Economic forecasting,Computer science,Knowledge management,Exploit,Knowledge value chain,Absorptive capacity,Industrial relations,Knowledge acquisition,Knowledge spillover
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
0-7695-2268-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Dreyfus1322.53
Bala Iyer2102472.28