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Endogenous Innovation in the Tech Cold War Era

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  • Xu, Tao Louie
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This review revisits endogenous innovation as a co-evolutionary process of dynamic capabilities amidst the global techno-nationalist Tech Cold War. Integrating micro organisational and macro institutional perspectives, it articulates a triple-staged capability growth chain: technology exploration, market exploitation, and ecosystem orchestration to capture the innovation-oriented adaptive ambidexterity by which emerging tech firms transition from component supplier to supply-chain ecosystem orchestrator. Proposing a research agenda of innovation ecosystem, mega-science infrastructure, regional cluster, and organisational culture, this research offers an alternative analytical approach to endogenous innovation in fractured environments across firm, regional, and national dimensions.

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  • Xu, Tao Louie & Liu, Li, 2025. "Endogenous Innovation in the Tech Cold War Era," MPRA Paper 126220, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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