New product search overtime: Past ideas in their prime?

被引:418
作者
Katila, R [1 ]
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[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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10.5465/3069326
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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This 'study is an investigation of how the age of the knowledge that firms search affects how innovative they are. Two seemingly contradictory propositions are examined: (1) old knowledge hurts by making innovation activities obsolete and (2) old knowledge helps because its reliability and legitimacy promote innovation. Results based on longitudinal data on 131 robotics firms reconcile the contradictory propositions: while old intraindustry knowledge hurts, old extraindustry knowledge promotes innovation.
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