How firm organizations adapt to secure a sustained knowledge transfer

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New knowledge with potential commercial value is created, replicated, and transferred in a distributed manner. The highly systemic nature of knowledge production and the need for any knowledge to be individually acquired and expressed in order to produce an effect, jointly constrain the dynamics of knowledge commercialization. This paper analyzes the nature of these constraints from an individualistic perspective, focusing particularly on the often neglected entrepreneurial aspects of the knowledge transfer. It explains how the constraints are overcome by organizational adaptations inside firms so that a sustained knowledge transfer into the commercial sphere of the innovation system can be secured.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 0719

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; New Firms; Startups ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
• Subject: Wissenstransfer ; Unternehmer ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Wissensmanagement

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Witt, Ulrich ; Zellner, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31832
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET