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Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms / Julia Porter Liebeskind, Amalya Lumerman Oliver, Lynne G. Zucker, Marilynn B. Brewer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter Liebeskind, Julia.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5320.
- NBER working paper series no. w5320
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.
- Summary:
- We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal market contracts are rarely used to govern these exchanges of scientific knowledge. Our findings suggest that the use of boundary-spanning social networks by the two NBFs increases both their learning and their flexibility in ways that would not be possible within a self-contained hierarchical organization.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 1995.
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