Collaborative patents and the mobility of knowledge workers – In my field of FBDD, research mobility seems to be one of the most important mechanisms for the knowledge to spread. In this study of the European biotech sector, inventors who were previously located together are found to form collaborations faster.
Taking leaps of faith: Evaluation criteria and resource commitments for early-stage inventions – Researchers use text mining to quantify how technology transfer office evaluate and decide to financially back a new invention. They find that feasibility and desirability (expressed through words used in the examination document) are important for new inventions.
Exploration versus exploitation in technology firms: The role of compensation structure for R&D workforce – people respond to incentives. This study explores how a firm can structure its incentives as a lever to incentivize exploration / exploitation. In this study, the researchers find that firms with ” higher-powered tournament incentives in vertical compensation structure report higher fraction of innovation directed towards exploration”
Aligning technology and institutional readiness: the adoption of
innovation – It’s always exciting to explore how big firms adopt innovation. While technological readiness is important, researchers in this paper introduce that it should be complemented with the idea of institutional readiness.
Team efficiency and network structure: The case of professional League of Legends – with the amount of data generated by Esports, we should expect more management insights coming from them. In this study, they look at the effect of team interactions/centrality on team performance.