How Firm Organizations Adapt to Secure a Sustained Knowledge Transfer

Ulrich Witt and Christian Zellner

Papers on Economics and Evolution from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: New knowledge with potential commercial value is created, replicated, and transferred in a distributed manner. The highly systemic nature of knowledge production and the need for any knowledge to be individually acquired and expressed in order to produce an effect, jointly constrain the dynamics of knowledge commercialization. This paper analyzes the nature of these constraints from an individualistic perspective, focusing particularly on the often neglected entrepreneurial aspects of the knowledge transfer. It explains how the constraints are overcome by organizational adaptations inside firms so that a sustained knowledge transfer into the commercial sphere of the innovation system can be secured.

Keywords: Length; 18; pages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D83 J24 M13 M51 O31 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~ and nep-knm
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