relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1060/
title: Radical innovation and network evolution
creator: Phlippen, Sandra
creator: Riccaboni, Massimo
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: HD Industries. Land use. Labor
subject: RS Pharmacy and materia medica
description: This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest that it requires radical technological change for firms to leave their embedded path of existing alliances and form new alliances with new partners. While new partners are mostly found through the firms’ existing network, we provide some insight into distant link formation with unknown partners, which contributes to our understanding of how ‘small-worlds’ might emerge
publisher: Association pour le développement de la recherché en économie et en statistique
date: 2007-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Phlippen, Sandra and Riccaboni, Massimo  Radical innovation and network evolution.  Annales d'Economie et de Statistique / Annals of Economics and Statistics , 87-88.  pp. 325-350.  ISSN 0769-489X      (2007)