Professor, University Of Lausanne
At the EURAM conference this week I attended at least two presentations in which the authors measure exploration with patents. This is actually a measure which has been used in …
Are patents a good measure of exploration? I don’t think so Read MoreWhat drives firms to choose to develop, produce and commercialize a new product alone rather than in collaboration with another industry incumbent? We (Garrette, Castañer and Dussauge, 2009) argue that, surprisingly, past research has for …
Choosing to introduce a new product alone or in collaboration Read MoreThe last twenty years have witnessed an increasing use of the concept of modularity. Initially used to refer to product design and its underlying technologies (e.g. Baldwin & Clark, 2000; Henderson & …
Modularity, near-decomposability and interdependence: On conceptual parsimony again Read More