A cognitive model of innovation

Nightingale, Paul

doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(98)00078-x

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“…Search is supposed to be local rather than global, while the degree of localness appears to be the outcome of cognitive, social and technological influences. The ability to engage in a search process within spaces that are distant from the original starting point is likely to generate breakthroughs stemming from the combination of brand new components (Nightingale, 1998;Fleming, 2001). …”

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High-growth firms and technological knowledge: do gazelles follow exploration or exploitation strategies?

Colombelli

Krafft²,

Quatraro³

2013

Industrial and Corporate Change

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ABSTRACT.This paper analyzes the contribution of high-growth firms to the process of knowledge creation. We articulate a demand-pull innovation framework in which knowledge creation is driven by sales growth, and knowledge stems from creative recombination. Given the established literature on high growth firms and economic growth, we wonder whether gazelles follow patterns of knowledge creation mostly dominated by exploration or exploitation strategies. To this purpose, we derive indicators able to describe the structure of knowledge and qualify firms' innovation strategies. The empirical results suggest that the reality is richer than the interpretative frameworks. Increasing growth rates are indeed associated to exploration strategies, supporting the idea that high growth firms are key actors in the creation of new technological knowledge. But in the meantime, firms showing growth rates significantly higher than the average are able to command the exploration strategies by constraining them within the boundaries of familiar technological competences, suggesting that the exploration process is less random than anticipated. We end up with the result that high growth firms, and especially gazelles, follow predominantly an exploration strategy, but with the characteristics of an organized search which is often more observed in an exploitation strategy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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High-growth firms and technological knowledge: do gazelles follow exploration or exploitation strategies?

Colombelli

Krafft²,

Quatraro³

2013

Industrial and Corporate Change

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“…This connects strongly to the insights of Nightingale [36] concerning the innovation process as a learning and recognising activity. However, rather than Nightingale's emphasis on the goal as constitutive, our findings put the discovery of an underlying logic in focus, and consequently recognise the possibility to learn from and master uncertainty as goals proper.…”

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“…Slappendel [33] suggests an interactive model of the innovation process that focuses on the complex and paradoxical interrelationship between action and structure, and on the voluntary as well as deterministic aspects of social systems. In trying to explain how the innovation process moves toward a desired goal, Nightingale [36] suggests a cognitive learning perspective on innovation. This approach focuses on individuals' tacit knowledge and cognitive mechanisms of pattern recognition.…”

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“…An alternative view on risk and cognition may be found in the tradition of cognitive constructivism, where knowledge about risks is seen as created in an amalgamation of external influences and active cognising by the individual [41]. The cognitive process may thus be conceived of as a form of learning, which gradually reconstructs the individual's cognitive understanding of risk based on experience [42] and on tacit background knowledge [36].…”

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Enacting risk in independent technological innovation

Berglund¹,

Hellström²

2002

IJRAM

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Abstract:The present study aims at investigating the role of risk in the activity of independent technological venturing. Altogether 12 deep-interviews were conducted with technological entrepreneurs, who had taken part in the inventive, developmental and the commercialisation phases of a technologybased innovation process. The interviews revealed a number of enactment approaches through which these innovators encountered and affected (dealt with or transformed) risk within the innovation process. Factors thus developed from the empirical material included: human capital, pace and priority, the world moves, activating social networks, risk learning, risk incrementalism, maintaining venture agility, and creating and sustaining autonomy. The paper presents a theoretical contextualisation as to the significance of these factors, and finally suggests a number of ways in which these may be interpreted for the benefit of innovation management.

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“…Thus, science begins with known starting conditions and searches for unknown end results (Nightingale, 1998). Technology is the application of new knowledge learned through science to some practical problem.…”

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The Economics of Science and Technology

Feldman

Link

Siegel

2002

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ABSTRACT. This paper provides a non-technical, accessible introduction to various topics in the burgeoning literature on the economics of science and technology. This is an interdisciplinary literature, drawing on the work of scholars in the fields of economics, public policy, sociology and management. The aim of this paper is to foster a deeper appreciation of the economic importance of science and technology issues. We also hope to stimulate additional research on these topics.

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A cognitive model of innovation

Cited by 234 publications

References 41 publications

High-growth firms and technological knowledge: do gazelles follow exploration or exploitation strategies?

High-growth firms and technological knowledge: do gazelles follow exploration or exploitation strategies?

Enacting risk in independent technological innovation

The Economics of Science and Technology

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