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Cross-Pollination in Science and Technology: Concept Mobility in the Nanobiotechnology Field

Grodal, Stine ; Thoma, Grid

Annals of economics and statistics, 2014-01, Vol.115-116 (115/116), p.57-80 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Cross-Pollination in Science and Technology: Concept Mobility in the Nanobiotechnology Field
  • Autor: Grodal, Stine ; Thoma, Grid
  • Assuntos: Biomedical technology ; Biotechnology ; Business innovation ; Commercialization ; Cross pollination ; Economic growth ; Information exchange ; Innovation and the Characteristics of Knowledge ; Keywords ; Nanotechnology ; Science and technology ; Technological innovation ; Technology ; Technology transfer
  • É parte de: Annals of economics and statistics, 2014-01, Vol.115-116 (115/116), p.57-80
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  • Descrição: The emergence of technological fields drives both scientific progress and economic growth. Field emergence necessitates a movement of knowledge between participants within the field, but little is known about the drivers and dynamics of knowledge diffusion within emerging fields. Research has shown that cross-pollination of knowledge plays an important role in innovative processes. However, these studies investigated cross-pollination at the team or individual level or through case-studies of individual technologies, while assuming that cross-pollination occurred between concepts. In this paper we move the unit of analysis to the level of the individual concept, and investigate how the cross-pollination of concepts influences concept mobility. The paper, thus, extends the literature's consideration of the impact of cross-pollination on innovative outcomes to investigating how cross-pollination influences knowledge diffusion. Our setting is the cross-pollination of knowledge between nanotechnology and biotechnology, which yielded the new subfield nanobiotechnology. Drawing on a large dataset of publications, patents and press-releases between 1991 and 2005 we track how around 133,000 concepts move from science to technology and commercialization. We find strong support for the hypothesis that cross-pollination facilitates concept mobility. Scientists who reside in commercial firms generally assist the mobility of concepts, but hinder the mobility of cross-pollinated concepts. Furthermore, if a patent contains cross-pollinated concepts it is more valuable. This paper contributes to our understanding of how cross-pollination influences the mobility of concepts between institutional contexts, and thus it augments our understanding of the commercialization process. JEL: O31, 034 / KEY WORDS: Technology, Science, Commercialization, Cross-Pollination
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  • Idioma: Inglês
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