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Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe
This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the changes in organizational structures, practices and...
The Key Characteristics of Sectoral Knowledge Bases: An International Comparison (2008)
This paper builds upon and extends existing studies of scientific and technological specialisation by proposing a broader theoretical framework to compare sectoral knowledge bases across countries....
Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe
This paper uses the original dialectic concept of loose coupling as discussed in Orton and Weick (1990) to reconcile two apparently opposing empirical trends reported in recent organizational and...
Rachel Cutts, Aldo Geuna, Stefano Brusoni, Stefano Brusoni, Aldo Geuna (c
and Business of Bio-Sciences & Bio-Technologies: What can be learnt from the Nordic
Chataway, Joanna, Brusoni, Stefano, Cacciatori, Eugenia, Hanlin, Rebecca, Orsenigo, Luigi
Vaccine production is now at the heart of the debate on development. This paper argues that, as well economic policies to address market failure, development policies aimed at fostering vaccine...
Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey (2007)
Giuri, Paola, Mariani, Myriam, Brusoni, Stefano, Verspagen, Bart
Open Source Software Development: Some Historical Perspectives (2005)
Alessandro Nuvolari, Richard Nelson, Bart Verspagen, Stefano Brusoni
In this paper we suggest that historical studies of technology can help us to account for some, perplexing (at least for traditional economic reasoning) features of open source software development....
Copenhagen Business School, (2005)
Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe
To be presented at the workshop "Organizing the search for technological innovation"
Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Marengo, Andre Prencipe, Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe, ...
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Authority in the Age of Modularity (2003)
This paper builds upon on-going research into the organisational implications of `modularity'. Advocates of modularity argue that the Invisible Hand of markets is reaching activities previously...
The Knowledge Bases, Stefano Brusoni, Stefano Brusoni, Paola Criscuolo, Paola Criscuolo, Aldo Geuna, ...
This paper examines the knowledge bases of the world's largest pharmaceuticals groups by sales. It puts forward the concepts of knowledge breadth and depth as the relevant dimensions along which...
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru / Problem solving and the Co-ordination of Innovative Activities (2003)
Stefano Brusoni, Keith Pavitt, Stefano Brusoni A, Keith Pavitt A
Problem solving and the co-ordination of
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sussex, 2001.
Unpacking the Black Box of Modularity: Technologies, Products and Organizations (2001)
Brusoni, Stefano, Prencipe, Andrea
This paper explores the issues of knowledge and organizational coordination that stem from the adoption of modular product architectures. Modularity is a common characteristic of the products we have...
Modularity as an Entry Strategy: The invasion of new niches in the LAN equipment industry
Stefano Brusoni, Roberto Fontana
This paper focuses on niche entry patterns in the LAN equipment industry in the 1990s. We analyze an original data-set of LAN equipment consisting of more than 1,000 hubs and switches marketed...
Brusoni, Stefano, Crespi, Gustavo, Francoz, Dominique, Gambardella, Alfonso, Garcia-Fontes, Walter, Geuna, Aldo, ...
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the...
Joanna Chataway, Stefano Brusoni, Eugenia Cacciatori, Rebecca Hanlin, Luigi Orsenigo
Vaccine production is now at the heart of the debate on development. This paper argues that, as well as economic policies to address market failures, development policies aimed at fostering vaccine...
The role of codified sources of knowledge in innovation: empirical evidence from Dutch manufacturing
Stefano Brusoni, Orietta Marsili, Ammon Salter
This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering firms' and countries' innovative performance. It aims to provide an empirical exploration of the...
Problem solving and the co-ordination of innovative activities
In the context of increasingly globalized markets, ever more complex supply chains and international manufacturing networks, corporate decision-making processes involve more and more actors,...
Stefano Brusoni, Paola Criscuolo, Aldo Geuna
This paper examines the knowledge bases of the world's largest pharmaceuticals groups by sales. It puts forward the concepts of knowledge breadth and depth as the relevant dimensions along which...
Authority in the Age of Modularity
This paper builds upon on-going research into the organisational implications of 'modularity'. Advocates of modularity argue that the Invisible Hand of markets is reaching activities previously...
Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey
Giuri, Paola, Mariani, Myriam, Brusoni, Stefano, Crespi, Gustavo, Francoz, Dominique, Gambardella, Alfonso, ...
The Value and Costs of Modularity: A Cognitive Perspective
Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe, Marco Valente
This paper discusses the issue of modularity from a problem-solving perspective. Modularity is in fact a decomposition heuristic, through which a complex problem is decomposed into independent or...
Making Design Rules: A Multi-Domain Perspective
Andrea Prencipe, Stefano Brusoni
This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the changes in organizational structures, practices and...
Stefano Brusoni, Paola Criscuolo, Aldo Geuna
This article examines the knowledge bases of the world’s largest pharmaceutical groups by sales. It builds upon the concepts of knowledge specialisation and knowledge integration as...
Paola Giuri, Myriam Mariani, Stefano Brusoni, Gustavo Crespi, Dominique Francoz, Alfonso Gambardella, ...
By drawing information from a survey of inventors of 9,017 European patents (PatVal-EU), this paper provides novel and detailed data about the characteristics of the European inventors, the sources...
Unpacking the Black Box of Modularity: Technologies, Products and Organizations.
Brusoni, Stefano, Prencipe, Andrea
This paper explores the issues of knowledge and organizational coordination that stem from the adoption of modular product architectures. Modularity is a common characteristic of the products we have...
EXPLORING THE MIRACLE: STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASE IN THE AERONAUTICS INDUSTRY
VIRGINIA ACHA, STEFANO BRUSONI, ANDREA PRENCIPE
We consider here the governance of learning and the diffusion of technological knowledge in the civil aircraft industry. We describe a systemic process by which specialization in knowledge encourages...
In Defence of the Linear Model: An Essay.
Margherita Balconi, Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Orsenigo
This paper has been prompted by an increasing sense of dissatisfaction with the current fashion of criticising the so-called “Linear Model” of innovation. LM). The frequency and hostility of...
New combinations in old industries
Stefano Brusoni, Giorgia Sgalari
Radical innovation, Modularity, Tire manufacturing, Long waves, 030, 033,
The role of codified sources of knowledge in innovation: Empirical evidence from Dutch manufacturing
Stefano Brusoni, Orietta Marsili, Ammon Salter
This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering innovative behaviour. It aims to provide an empirical exploration of the use of codified sources...
Innovate or Die? A critical review of the literature on innovation and performance
Stefano Brusoni, Elena Cefis, Luigi Orsenigo
The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However, empirical evidence showing that innovating organizations and countries outperform...
Antonino Vaccaro, Stefano Brusoni, Francisco Veloso
This paper analyzes the contribution of Virtual Design Tools (VDTs) to the processes of knowledge replication and recombination in the context of product innovation. On the basis of an in depth case...
Re-Inventing the Wheel: Knowledge Integration in Fast-changing Environments.
Stefano Brusoni, Lorenzo Cassi
The aim of this paper is to look at knowledge integration as an organizational capability which leaves traces in intra-organizational networks. To do so, this paper develops a methodology to identify...
Malerba,Franco, Brusoni,Stefano
Innovation has become a major field of study in economics, management, sociology, science and technology, and history. Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories...
Malerba,Franco, Brusoni,Stefano
Innovation has become a major field of study in economics, management, sociology, science and technology, and history. Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories...
The impact of virtual technologies on knowledge-based processes: An empirical study
Vaccaro, Antonino, Veloso, Francisco, Brusoni, Stefano
This study examines the organizational knowledge creation processes in two highly virtual teams involved in new product development projects in the automotive industry. Using Nonaka's model of...