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Exploiting And Nurturing In-House Technological Capabilities: Lessons From The Aerospace Industry

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  • ANDREA PRENCIPE

    (Complex Product Systems Innovation Centre, SPRU, University of Sussex, Mantell Building, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RF, UK)

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This paper identifies four major types of technological capabilities of firms developing multi-technology products:integrative, absorptive, coordinative, and generative. Using an in-depth case study of a high technology sub-system, the paper focuses on a firm'sgenerativecapabilities. The paper illustrates that a firm's generative capabilities enables it to (a)framea particular problem, (b)enactan innovative vision, and (c)solvethe problem by developing new manufacturing techniques. The triadframe-enact-solveis argued to be the primary feature of a firm'sgenerative capability.

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  • Andrea Prencipe, 2001. "Exploiting And Nurturing In-House Technological Capabilities: Lessons From The Aerospace Industry," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(03), pages 299-321.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:05:y:2001:i:03:n:s1363919601000397
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919601000397
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    1. Miklós Koren & Silvana Tenreyro, 2013. "Technological Diversification," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(1), pages 378-414, February.
    2. Biggiero, Lucio & Angelini, Pier Paolo, 2015. "Hunting scale-free properties in R&D collaboration networks: Self-organization, power-law and policy issues in the European aerospace research area," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 21-43.

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