Mind the gap

The effects of internal technological diversity and external uncertainty on technological alliance portfolio diversity

“…The coefficient for Uncertainty is neither significant in Model 3 nor in Model 4. We have retested Model 3 using the uncertainty definitions of Goerzen (2007) as well as of Gilsing, Vanhaverbeke, and Pieters (2014), but in both cases (not shown in Table 3) failed to obtain statistically significant results. In summary, our empirical analysis did not support our Hypothesis 2.…”

“…For firms in high-tech industries, uncertainties related to changes in the key technologies of the industry, i.e. technical uncertainty (Gilsing, Vanhaverbeke, and Pieters 2014;Goerzen 2007;Van de Vrande, Vanhaverbeke, and Duysters 2009), are of great concern as firms' existing knowledge and technologies might become obsolete due to technology shifts (Koka and Prescott 2008). The technological uncertainty has two effects on firms: first, it increases the pressure to innovate and second, it requires firms to identify technological options to be prepared for when the current capabilities and technologies are no longer sufficient to successfully compete in the industry.…”

“…Goerzen (2007) measured the percentage change in the number of patents of the industry between two years. A similar approach was used by Gilsing, Vanhaverbeke, and Pieters (2014) who measured the relative change in the number of industry patents for a given year compared to the average of the three preceding years. Instead of basing a measure on the total patenting activity, Van de Vrande, Vanhaverbeke, and Duysters (2009) introduced a measure based on the change of patenting activity in the patent classes that are most relevant for a given industry.…”

“…The calculation of the variable revealed relatively small year-to-year differences, but a large uncertainty in the year 2005. This prompted us to also calculate the uncertainty following the above-mentioned approaches of Goerzen (2007) and Gilsing, Vanhaverbeke, and Pieters (2014). A comparison of the results of these measures is given in Figure 1.…”

Exploring the Key Driving Forces of the Sustainable Intergenerational Evolution of the Industrial Alliance Innovation Ecosystem: Evidence from a Case Study of China’s TDIA

“…Non-market, state-supported manufacturing intermediaries should focus on the cooperation of the innovation supply side and single enterprise [64]. However, when a strategy is formulated against the background of dynamic system innovation, shaping complementary and alternative exclusive regimes becomes the central point [65,66].…”