TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological endowments in entrepreneurial partnerships
AU - Martinez-Giralt, Xavier
AU - Nicolini, Rosella
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - This paper discusses a novel argument to interpret the importance of thinking of collaborative partnerships in pre-competitive agreements. To do so, we adopt a dynamic iterative process to model technology diffusion between the partners of an agreement. We find that the success of an agreement of a given length hinges around identifying the suitable efficient combinations of the initial technological endowments of partners. As the time horizon of the agreement expands, the probability of identifying a suitable partner decreases, thus justifying the prevalence of short-horizon R&D agreements. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
AB - This paper discusses a novel argument to interpret the importance of thinking of collaborative partnerships in pre-competitive agreements. To do so, we adopt a dynamic iterative process to model technology diffusion between the partners of an agreement. We find that the success of an agreement of a given length hinges around identifying the suitable efficient combinations of the initial technological endowments of partners. As the time horizon of the agreement expands, the probability of identifying a suitable partner decreases, thus justifying the prevalence of short-horizon R&D agreements. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
KW - Cantor set
KW - Discrete time
KW - Logistic function
KW - Technology diffusion
U2 - 10.1007/s10588-012-9144-8
DO - 10.1007/s10588-012-9144-8
M3 - Article
SN - 1381-298X
VL - 19
SP - 601
EP - 621
JO - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
JF - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
ER -