Knowledge recombination for emerging technological innovations: The case of green shipping

Maria Tsouri, Teis Hansen, Jens Hanson and Markus Steen

Technovation, 2022, vol. 114, issue C

Abstract: The paper explores knowledge recombination by analysing how knowledge networks in established technological fields influenced the formation of the emerging field of green shipping in the period 2007–2018. Previous research has demonstrated that embeddedness, proximity, and status are important mechanisms for the evolution of single technological fields. We investigate if these mechanisms also apply across technological fields. By employing dynamic social network analysis models, we find that actors transferred knowledge across technological fields through (re)combination mechanisms, which affected the emergence of the new technological field, but in different ways. While embeddedness and proximity played an important role, status was less important.

Keywords: Knowledge recombination; Network evolution; Emerging technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D85 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102454

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