Emerging Strategies for Matching Distant Knowledge with existing Innovation Capabilities

This thesis pursues the question of how technology-intensive firms can match knowledge from outside of the organization which is distant from their current Technology/product /market context with their existing routines and capabilities. The focus of the study is motivated both by theoretical and phenomenological ambiguity and uncertainty. From a phenomenological point of view on the one hand, innovation processes have been opening up, moving from hierarchy-based forms of organizing R&D to more market-based forms. This disaggregation demands of technology-intensive firms to search and apply knowledge from outside of the boundaries of the firm. In addition, technology convergence and divergence dynamics entail that the knowledge sourced is increasingly distant from the current technology/product/market context of the firm.

Supervisors: Sigvald Harryson, Associate Professor Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy Copenhagen Business School Jens Frøslev-Christensen, Professor Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee members:

Mark Lorenzen, Associate professor (Chairman of the Committee) Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics Copenhagen Business School

Cornelius Herstatt, Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) Institute for Technology/Innovation Management (TIM)

Mark Dodgson, Professor Director, TIMC The University of Queensland

After the defence the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics will be hosting a small reception at Kilevej 14 3. fl., room K3.41. You are all welcome to participate in the defence and reception. No registration is needed.

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