Paper Seminar: Is knowledge exchange and combination always useful for innovation?

The Paper Seminar series is a perfect opportunity to get up to speed with the entrepreneurship research scene and meet and greet your fellow researchers.

We follow the traditional approach with 30-45 minutes of presentation, followed by comments and discussion.

Paper Abstract

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the effect of knowledge on innovation. With this general aim in mind, we relate knowledge’s nature (tacit vs. explicit) and the process (e.g., knowledge exchange and combination) to innovation. Using a sample of 105 marketing and 176 R&D managers from 105 innovative firms, we find a positive linear effect of tacit knowledge on innovation and a U-shaped relationship between knowledge exchange and combination and innovation. We also find an enhancing effect of tacit knowledge on the first part of the curvilinear relationship between knowledge exchange and combination and innovation. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. 

Biography

Ana Pérez-Luño, PhD, is an Associated Professor of Management in the Business Administration Department, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), where she obtained her doctorate in 2007. Her current work focuses on research in innovation, knowledge, competitiveness, and resource-based theory. She has published her research in several Spanish and international journals as Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Resource Management, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, International journal of intellectual property management, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, Management Research, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management and Journal of Business Research, among others. She teaches Organization Theory and Business Administration to undergraduate students, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation to MBA and PhD students.