LARGE PLAYERS IN THE NANOGAME: DEDICATED NANOTECH SUBSIDIARIES OR DISTRIBUTED NANOTECH CAPABILITIES?

Vincent Mangematin, Khalid Errabi and Caroline Gauthier ()
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Caroline Gauthier: MTS - Management Technologique et Strategique - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Abstract: Nanotechnologies are reshaping the boundaries between industries, combining two aspects of innovation - both enhancing competences based on cumulative knowledge and experience and destroying competences by forcing the renewal of the firm's knowledge base. To analyze how worldwide R&D leaders adapt to this new technology, we conduct an econometric analysis of about 3,000 subsidiaries of the largest R&D spenders. We find that large groups are creating medium size subsidiary companies to explore nanotechnologies. Knowledge circulates mostly amongst subsidiaries within the same group and scientific clusters do not affect their involvement in nanotechnologies. Nanotechnologies remain marginal within these subsidiaries' knowledge bases and are distributed within corporate groups, stimulating recombination between nanotechnology and other technologies

Keywords: incumbent; inflexibility; hybridization; nanotechnology; pre-adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Journal of Technology Transfer, 2011, 36 (6), pp.640-664. ⟨10.1007/s10961-011-9209-8⟩

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Journal Article: Large players in the nanogame: dedicated nanotech subsidiaries or distributed nanotech capabilities? (2011)
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DOI: 10.1007/s10961-011-9209-8

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