TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0769-489X
AV  - none
SP  - 325
TI  - Radical innovation and network evolution
N2  - 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
ID  - eprints1060
EP  - 350
VL  - 87-88
PB  - Association pour le développement de la recherché en économie et en statistique
UR  - http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1060/
JF  - Annales d'Economie et de Statistique / Annals of Economics and Statistics 
A1  - Phlippen, Sandra
A1  - Riccaboni, Massimo
Y1  - 2007/12//
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry; Biotechnology industry; R&D; Technological change; Alliances; Networks; 
ER  -