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

Maria Tsouri, Teis Hansen, Jens Hanson and Markus Steen ()

No 2045, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

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. The authors build hypotheses to investigate whether important mechanisms for the evolution of single technology networks, embeddedness, proximity, and status apply across technological fields. By employing dynamic social network analysis models, they found 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 played an important role, status and geographical proximity were 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: 2020-09, Revised 2020-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ict, nep-knm, nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
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