The impact of technological diversity and organizational slack on innovation

Huang, Yi‐Fen; Chen, Chung‐Jen

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2010.01.004

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“…We adopt the view that technological diversification can be divided into unrelated technological diversification (UTD), which indicates the extent of technological diversification among irrelevant technology fields, and related technological diversification (RTD), which refers to the extent of technological diversification on relevant technology fields, with the entropy measurement [29,34,[44][45][46]. The entropy measurement has advantages in terms of simple measurement, repeatability, and objectivity compared to categories measurement like seven categories [3,47].…”

Section: Related Technological Diversification (Rtd) Versus Unrelatedmentioning

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“…There are also, notwithstanding, many reviews that argue a firm should focus on specific technology due to specialization and economy of scale [29][30][31][32][33]. On the other hand, researchers acknowledge that the relationship between technological diversification and performance is not linear as the technological diversification increases, but rather, curvilinear of inverted-U, because of the correlation between the synergy among resources and the management cost [16,[34][35][36]. It is also found that a firm has the features of conditional opposition by the moderators such as the firm's absorptive capacity, technological relatedness, technological capabilities, and firm's size [5,[37][38][39].…”

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Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

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Abstract:This paper aims to analyze the influence of the technological diversification on a firm's innovation capabilities and investigates the effect of various strategies on the firm's financial performance in a technology-oriented environment. We employ the entropy measurement to calculate technological diversification with 2095 patents, which are applied from years 2009 to 2011 by 507 firms that have participated in Korean government Information Technology (IT) Research and Development (R&D) supporting programs. In our framework, a firm should not diversify among the related technology fields, but should concentrate on a specific technology to reinforce the competitive advantage. However, in the case of the firms with sufficient resources, increasing technological diversification among the unrelated technology fields plays a key role on the firms' performance. Furthermore, the degree of the technological diversification should be adjusted dynamically in compliance with the change of a firm's innovation capabilities. Therefore, these results suggest that a firm should develop differentiated competitiveness through specialization by prioritizing its capabilities, and then exploit unrelated technological diversification to search for new opportunities.

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Section: Related Technological Diversification (Rtd) Versus Unrelatedmentioning

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Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

2017

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“…Organizational emotional capabilities related to individuals such as dynamics of encouragement and experiencing within a firm have a positive effect on product and process innovation while displaying freedom has a positive impact on process innovation (Akgun, Keskin & Byrne, 2009). According to Huang and Chen (2010) firms can innovate better at a certain level of diversity in their technology base. However, beyond that limit technology diversity has a negative relationship with innovation.…”

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The Individual’s Influence on Low-Technology Innovation: A Critical Realism Based Case Study on North-West Pakistan’s Marble Sector

Nouman¹,

Taj²,

Gul³

2017

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“…[23] state that, for companies to grow, they must maintain a bond of collaboration between them. Thus, the business environment will lead to technological growth, diversificat ion, and opportunities, being a source of competitive advantage in enterprises [24]. In an innovative environment, the strengthening of networks in companies is an opportunity for knowledge transfer and, in particular, the exchange of technology.…”

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A Pratical Benchmark for Quality Certification in Business Incubators

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2017

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This study aims to create a pract ical quality benchmark for incubators. The benchmark is a model to be followed in order to help incubators deploy all processes defined by the quality accreditation label called Centro de Referência para Apoio a Novos Empreendimentos [Reference Center fo r Support to New Ventures] -Cerne. The purpose of this label is to standardize the processes and level the quality of the incubators. The study was based mainly on two tools of quality management. One is the PDCA cycle and the other is the 5W2H. There are countless benefits fro m this certification. A mong such benefits: ensuring the incubated companies higher quality in rendered services; enhancing the visibility and credibility of the incubator and incubated companies; reducing process variability; increasing the competitiveness of the incubator; in addition to benefiting fro m a more effective and systematic management system. Thus, this practical benchmark will be very useful for any incubator that has an interest in receiving the Cerne accred itation. Those involved with the incubators had a positive experience with the objective material, with clear and organized information. With this material, it will be simp ler to systematize and standardize the processes required by Cerne accreditation.

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The impact of technological diversity and organizational slack on innovation

Cited by 158 publications

References 53 publications

Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

The Individual’s Influence on Low-Technology Innovation: A Critical Realism Based Case Study on North-West Pakistan’s Marble Sector

A Pratical Benchmark for Quality Certification in Business Incubators

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