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- Assmus, Anne, et al.
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How do personal networks affect successful drug development? An analysis of scientists networks in clinical trials
- 2016
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Ingår i: 16th International Schumpeter Conference, Montreal, Canada, 5th-8th July 2016.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of how to increase the efficiency and success of clinical research has gained considerable interest in recent years among researchers and managers of pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and healthcare organizations. This is part of a broader debate on the reorganization of the industry’s clinical research activities in order to decrease high attrition rates and foster clinical trial success, given the increasing costs associated with drug development (DiMasi et al., 2016; Munos, 2009; FDA, 2004). Principal investigators (PIs) - i.e., the lead scientists of clinical trials - are expected to have a major influence on key factors for successful clinical research. On the one hand, they bring in expertise in both basic and clinical research (Assmus and Haeussler, 2015); and on the other hand, they are embedded in social networks reflecting the collective nature of innovative and scientific activities (Oettl, 2012). Advocates of sparse network structures emphasize its opportunities for brokerage and for knowledge creation (McFadyen et al., 2009; Fleming et al., 2007; Burt, 2004); while a different stream of literature argues that network closure is more conducive to knowledge creation since it allows for the transfer of complex and sensitive knowledge (Reagans and McEvily, 2003). However, this debate has largely ignored the importance of the actors’ knowledge domains (Kilduff and Brass, 2010). We contribute to the literature by analyzing how the predominant knowledge domains of PIs affect the benefits obtained from by the network structure. More precisely, we analyze how the interplay between PIs’ scientific specialization into different knowledge domains in terms of publications in basic or clinical research journals and the structure of their networks in terms of brokerage and closure affect the outcome of clinical trials.
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- Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha, et al.
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Business strategy and innovation spaces in Asia
- 2013
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Ingår i: Conference Business strategy and innovation spaces in Asia.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a conceptual framework for why business strategy is related to the context of expanding market and technological opportunities in Asia. This paper was presented at the conference: Business strategy and innovation spaces in Asia was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, organized by IIE, 20-22 Feb 2013.
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- Bagley, Mark, 1979, et al.
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The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music industry
- 2022
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Ingår i: Industry and Innovation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-2716 .- 1469-8390. ; 29:3, s. 425-462
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the evolution of niches in creative industries, specifically the music industry. We conceptualise niche evolution as a manifestation of Schumpeterian disruption, and the music scene as a representation of a creative niche. Through mixed methods, we analyse niche evolution in collaboration networks over sixty years. We show that niche evolution exhibits recombination and reinforcement of new ideas, and propose that niche emergence and evolution in the music industry can be categorised as following three different pathways: seed fragmentation networks with early recombination and intermediate-stage reinforcement, often resulting from break-ups of highly influential bands; creative horizontal networks with intermediate-stage recombination and reinforcement, consisting of tightly knit communities with delayed commercial breakthroughs; and artist experimentation networks with late recombination and reinforcement, consisting of small niches of sub-genre innovations. This paper opens up new research directions for niche evolution, which can advance understanding of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems in other sectors.
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Exploring industrial PhD students and perceptions of their impact on firm innovation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Bernhard, I. Gråsjö, U. & Karlsson, C. Diversity, Innovation and Clusters. Spatial Perspectives. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishers. - 9781789902570
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter explores industrial PhD students, including their activities and their perceptions of the impact of their studies and of their role in university–firm interaction on firm innovation. The limited number of previous studies of industrial PhD students mainly focus on broader issues related to these students’ educational experience and learning outcomes (Thune 2009), whereas studies of PhD students moving to industry generally focus not on their activities during education but rather on what happens after graduation (e.g., Cruz-Castro & Sanz-Menéndez 2005; Garcia-Quevedo et al. 2011; Roach & Sauermann 2010). Here, we consider a specific empirical phenomenon, namely, industrial PhD students during their education, when they are simultaneously involved in both the university and the firm. Because little research considers our phenomenon, we address two questions through detailed qualitative research, within the empirical context of collaborative research in the field of engineering in Sweden. Given the lack of previous research on this topic, our first question is, How to define an industrial PhD student? To answer this, we consider the conditions for education and employment, their specific activities, and the frequency of activities bridging the university and firm. Then we seek to explore their perceived contribution to firm innovation during their education as PhD students, so our second question is What is the perception of how their activities impact upon firm innovation? To conceptualize this, we first present an existing conceptual framework for academic engagement with industry, and further elaborating on underlying concepts in order to develop a detailed analysis of the the micro-level activities of these PhD students. Our results identify several activities of these industrial PhD students that merit analysis in future research, and specifically in relation to the development of firm capabilities for innovation.
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Graduate Students as Boundary Spanners: How Academic Engagement can influence Firm Innovation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. Volym 2020:1. - : Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to literature on “academic engagement with industry”, by exploring graduate students as boundary spanners between firms and universities. As contrasted with studies of commercialization of scientific results through patents and start-up firms, literature on academic engagement focuses on how faculty members and students engage in knowledge-related interactions with external organizations. Extant literature has focused more on universities and less on firms. We conceptualize graduate students as holding a boundary spanning position between the firm and university, focusing empirically upon firm employed PhD students in engineering. More specifically, we investigate how their activities constitute a form of academic engagement, in order to further understand their influence on the firms’ absorptive capacity. We revise an existing conceptual framework and further develop the notion that there are two pathways – e.g. a direct and an indirect pathway – by which collaborative research may impact innovation outcomes within firms. When doing so, we specify how graduate student activities mainly support the development of firm capabilities for early stages in the innovation process, specifically recognizing the value and, to some extent, assimilating new external knowledge. We conclude with two propositions about how boundary spanner activities can be conceptualized as organizational routines underlying search capabilities
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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How Academic Engagement Through Graduate Students Can Affect Firms’ Search Capabilities for Innovation: A Micro-level Analysis of Firm Employed PhD Students in Engineering
- 2019
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Ingår i: DRUID 2019 Conference proceedings. - Copenhagen, Denmark : DRUID Society.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to the recent stream of literature developing the concept of “academic engagement with industry”, which focuses not on commercialization but on the knowledge networks between university and industry. We do so by exploring the firm side of such interactions, and empirically conduct a study of how firm employed PhD students do micro-level activities, which in turn help develop knowledge networks. A firm employed PhD student is a person who is enrolled at the university as a PhD student while at the same time being employed at the firm. We extend an existing conceptual framework, which suggests that there are two pathways whereby collaborative research between university and industry may impact innovation outcomes within firms. We find that microlevel activities develop and support the indirect pathways of academic engagement, and propose this may be conceptualized as organizational routines underlying search capabilities
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Researching together in academic engagement in engineering: a study of dual affiliated graduate students in Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT. - 0267-5730 .- 1741-5276. ; 96:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores dual affiliated graduate students that conduct research involving both universities and firms, which we conceptualise as a form of academic engagement, e.g., knowledge networks. We explore what they do during their studies, and their perceptions about their contributions to the firm's capacities for technology and innovation. So far, university-industry interactions in engineering are less researched than other fields, and this qualitative study focuses upon one department of Electrical Engineering in Sweden. First, we define and describe how the partner firms and universities organise this research collaboration as a form of academic engagement. Secondly, we propose a conceptual framework specifying how graduate students act as boundary-spanners between universities and firms. This framework is used for the empirical analysis, when exploring their perceptions of impact. Our results reveal that they primarily engage in problem-solving activities in technology, which augment particularly the early stages of absorptive capacities in firms.
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- Bourelos, Evangelos, 1982, et al.
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Academic Patenting in Sweden: New Evidence from the 2011 Database
- 2012
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Ingår i: ESF-APE-INV workshop: “Scientists & Inventors” – KU Leuven, 10-11 May 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract: After the collection of data on Swedish academic inventors in 2011, we created a longitudinal dataset containing two points in time. The 2005 dataset has indicated that research intense universities take the most patents, a trend which still remains. We describe and analyze the dynamics within the different disciplines among the 6 universities with highest number of patents. For these 6 universities data from 2009 are combined and compared too. Preliminary results indicate that Sweden still performs better than other European countries, where data available.
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