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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …

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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

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Learning and Innovation in Inter-Organizational Relationships and Networks

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger … cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation.On the governance side, the paper gives a review of …

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Density and strength of ties in innovation networks: an analysis of multimedia and biotechnology

Gilsing, V.; Nooteboom, B. - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis), … - 2004

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : A Competence and Governance View

Nooteboom, B.; Gilsing, V.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that in networks for exploration there are good reasons, counter to the thesis of the 'strength of weak ties', for a dense structure of ties that are strong in most dimensions.By...

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Innovation, Learning and Cluster Dynamics

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This chapter offers a theory and an analytical framework for the analysis of cluster dynamics, i.e. the innovative performance and evolution of clusters.It develops three types of embedding: institutional embedding, structural embedding (network structure), and relational embedding (type and...

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Empirical Tests of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, M.; Dutta, S.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of optimal cognitive distance , proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings.Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : An Analysis of Multi-Media and Biotechnology

Gilsing, V.A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia …

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