Wim Vanhaverbeke

Learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios (2008)

Koen H. Heimeriks, Geert Duysters, Wim Vanhaverbeke, The Netherl

This study assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms in alliance portfolios. Investigating two distinct types of learning mechanisms (i.e. integrating and...

Radical versus non-radical inventions (2008)

Schoenmakers, Wilfred, Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions...

Radical versus non-radical inventions (2008)

SCHOENMAKERS, Wilfred, DUYSTERS, Geert, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions...

The effects of inter-industry and country difference in supplier relationships on radical innovations (2008)

Li, Ying, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

Radical innovations are critical driving forces for firms to engage in corporate growth and new business development. Innovating firms are increasingly generating new knowledge in collaboration with...

The innovative performance of alliance block members : evidence from the microelectronics industry (2008)

Duysters, Geert, Lemmens, Charmianne, Letterie, Wilko, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In particular,...

Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: Technological distance, betweenness centrality and density (2008)

Gilsing, Victor, Nooteboom, Bart, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Van Den Oord, Ad

This paper aims to understand better the innovation potential of a firm's alliance network. Here we analyze the role of an alliance network in terms of the technological distance between partners, a...

Exploration and exploitation in technology-based alliance networks (2007)

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Beerkens, Bonnie, Gilsing, Victor

Although the literature converges regarding the reasons why and how networks of technology alliances are formed, there is still lack of agreement on what constitutes an optimal network structure,...

External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice (2007)

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Vrande, Vareska Van De

This study examines the effect of external and relational uncertainty o the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing. We develop a number of hypotheses about the impact of...

Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries (2007)

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Beerkens, Bonnie

Learning through networks has been considered as an important research topic for several years now. Technological learning is more and more based on a combination of internal and external learning...

The effects of technological distance and geographic localization in customer and supplier relationships on the radicalness of innovations (2007)

LI, Ying, NOOTEBOOM, Bart, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

In this paper, we examine the influence of knowledge distance between firms, in terms of technological and geographic dimensions, on firms' breakthrough innovation performance. We distinguish the...

Learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios (2007)

Heimeriks, Koen, DUYSTERS, Geert, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

This study assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms in alliance portfolios. Investigating two distinct types of learning mechanisms (i.e. integrating and...

The effects of technological distance and geographic localization in customer and supplier relationships on the radicalness of innovations (2007)

LI, Ying, NOOTEBOOM, Bart, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

In this paper, we examine the influence of knowledge distance between firms, in terms of technological and geographic dimensions, on firms' breakthrough innovation performance. We distinguish the...

Learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios (2007)

Heimeriks, Koen, DUYSTERS, Geert, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

This study assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms in alliance portfolios. Investigating two distinct types of learning mechanisms (i.e. integrating and...

An exploratory study of learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios (2007)

HEIMERIKS, K., VANHAVERBEKE, Wim, DUYSTERS, Geert

This study assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms in alliance portfolios. Investigating two distinct types of learning mechanisms (i.e. integrating and...

Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity (2006)

Nooteboom, Bart, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Gilsing, Victor, Oord, Ad Van Den

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology-based alliances. The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped...

Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies : technological distance, betweenness centrality and density (2006)

Nooteboom, Bart, Gilsing, Victor, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Oord, Ad Van Den

In this paper we analyze the innovative performance of alliance networks as a function of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality) and total network...

Choosing governance modes for external technology sourcing (2006)

Van De Vrande, V., Lemmens, C., VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

This study examines the effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice of interfirm relationships in new business development (NBD). We combine transaction cost economics and real options reasoning,...

The territoriality of the network economy and urban networks: evidence from flanders (2006)

Cabus, P., VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

As the network economy is continuing to develop, external economies are taking over internal economies and they are increasingly determining the entrepreneurial logic. To evaluate the territorial...

Groeiende innovatie of innoverende groei (2006)

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The economics of rural areas in the proximity of urban networks: Evidence from Flanders (2003)

Cabus, P, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

Flanders is a densely populated, strongly urbanised region in Northwest Europe, but with still recognisable peri-urban rural territories. These territories have a distinct economic profile that is...

Marketing management within the multinational corporation: a multidisciplinary approach (2003)

VERCAUTEREN, Anne, MATTHYSSENS, Paul, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

This paper presents a multi-disciplinary framework for the study of marketing management within the multinational corporation (MNC). Research domains of MNC management, the role of knowledge within...

External technology sourcing through alliances or acquisitions: An analysis of the application-specific integrated circuits industry (2002)

VANHAVERBEKE, Wim, DUYSTERS, Geert, Noorderhaven, N

In today's turbulent business environment innovation is the result of the interplay between two distinct but related factors: endogenous R&D efforts and (quasi) external acquisition of technology and...

External technology sourcing through alliances or acquisitions: An analysis of the application-specific integrated circuits industry (2002)

VANHAVERBEKE, Wim, DUYSTERS, Geert, Noorderhaven, N

In today's turbulent business environment innovation is the result of the interplay between two distinct but related factors: endogenous R&D efforts and (quasi) external acquisition of technology and...

De symbiose tussen plattelandsgebieden en stedelijke centra in Vlaanderen (1999)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim

In Vlaanderen liggen alle plattelandsgebieden op relatief korte afstanden van stedelijke centra. Vaak zijn de afstanden naar het werk en naar bepaalde nutsvoorzieningen - net zoals in Nederland...

REALIZING NEW REGIONAL CORE COMPETENCE: ESTABLISHING A CUSTOMER-ORIENTED SME-NETWORK (1999)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim

South West-Flanders is a region in Belgium with an almost unique concentration of firms - mainly SMEs - in what could be called the Ahousing and home furnishing@-business cluster. The extreme...

De zonevreemde bedrijvenproblematiek in Vlaanderen (1999)

Braeckman, Guy, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

De zonevreemde bedrijven vormen in Vlaanderen een belangrijk probleem binnen de huidige ruimtelijke planning. Zonevreemde bedrijven hebben niet alleen een ruimtelijke component (ze zijn zonevreemd)...

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN PROCESS-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (1998)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Torremans, Huub

This paper investigates the role of the organization structure in process-based organizations. We argue that companies cannot be designed upon organizational processes only or that process management...

Bouwen en wonen : een project voor het realiseren van nieuwe subregionale kerncompetenties in Zuid-West-Vlaanderen (1997)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim

De vraag naar creatieve of innovatieve projecten voor een vernieuwd economisch beleid wordt steeds groter. De voorliggende nota is vernieuwend zowel op theoretisch als op beleidsmatig vlak. Op...

A longitudinal analysis of the choice between technology-based strategic alliances and acquisitions in high-tech industries : the case of the ASIC industry (1997)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert

Firms producing application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have established numerous technology based strategic alliances (SAs) and were involved in merger and acquisition activities (M&As) to...

Het belang van de Vlaamse Ruit vanuit economisch perspectief (1997)

Vanhaverbeke, Wim

In het Structuurplan Vlaanderen wordt uitgegaan van de notie "Vlaamse Ruit", die op termijn een stedelijk netwerk op internationaal niveau zou moeten worden. Concreet gaat het om de ruit Antwerpen,...

Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Beerkens, Bonnie

Learning through networks has been considered as an important research topic for several years now. Technological learning is more and more based on a combination of internal and external learning...

External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Vrande, Vareska Van De

This study examines the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing. We develop a number of hypotheses about the impact of...

Exploration and Exploitation in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Beerkens, Bonnie, Gilsing, Victor

Although the literature converges regarding the reasons why and how networks of technology alliances are formed, there is still lack of agreement on what constitutes an optimal network structure,...

The economics of rural areas in the proximity of urban networks: evidence from Flanders

Peter Cabus, Wim Vanhaverbeke

Flanders is a densely populated, strongly urbanised region in Northwest Europe, but with still recognisable peri-urban rural territories. These territories have a distinct economic profile that is...

A longitudinal analysis of the choice between technology-based strategic alliances and acquisitions in high-tech industries : the case of the ASIC industry

Vanhaverbeke,Wim, Duysters,Geert

Firms producing application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have established numerous technology based strategic alliances (SAs) and were involved in merger and acquisition activities (M&As) to...

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN PROCESS-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

Vanhaverbeke,Wim, Torremans,Huub

This paper investigates the role of the organization structure in process-based organizations. We argue that companies cannot be designed upon organizational processes only or that process management...

De zonevreemde bedrijvenproblematiek in Vlaanderen

Braeckman,Guy, Vanhaverbeke,Wim

De zonevreemde bedrijven vormen in Vlaanderen een belangrijk probleem binnen de huidige ruimtelijke planning. Zonevreemde bedrijven hebben niet alleen een ruimtelijke component (ze zijn zonevreemd)...

Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies : technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

Nooteboom, Bart, Gilsing, Victor, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Oord, Ad Van Den

In this paper we analyze the innovative performance of alliance networks as a function of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality) and total network...

Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity

Nooteboom, Bart, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Gilsing, Victor, Oord, Ad Van Den

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology-based alliances. The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped...

Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? Evidence from Regional Data

De Grauwe, Paul, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

In this paper we contrast regional and national data on real exchange rate movements, the growth rates of output and employment, labour mobility and unemployment. We find that asymmetric shocks tend...

Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred, Duysters, Geert, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions...

Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges

Jeroen De Jong, Vareska Van De Vrande, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Maurice De Rochemont

Although evidence for open innovation practices has been provided for large MNEs, they have not yet been analyzed systematically for SMEs. This paper presents the results of a survey among 605 Dutch...

The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry

Duysters, Geert, Lemmens, Charmianne, Letterie, Wilko, Vanhaverbeke, Wim

The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In particular,...

External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

Van De Vrande, Vareska, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert

External knowledge sourcing is increasingly important for corporate entrepreneurship. In this study, we examine the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for...

Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: Technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

Gilsing, Victor, Nooteboom, Bart, Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Duysters, Geert, Van Den Oord, Ad

This paper aims to understand better the innovation potential of a firm's alliance network. Here we analyze the role of an alliance network in terms of the technological distance between partners, a...

The Role of Alliance Network Redundancy in the Creation of Core and Non-core Technologies

Wim Vanhaverbeke, Victor Gilsing, Bonnie Beerkens, Geert Duysters

This paper studies the effect of a focal firm, and its partners' local alliance actions, on the creation of technological innovations by the former. More specifically, we study how two types of...

Understanding the advantages of open innovation practices in corporate venturing in terms op real options

Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Van De Vrande, Vareska, Chesbrough, Henry

Part of the advantages of using open innovation (compared to closed innovation) in corporate venturing can be explained by applying the real options approach. Open innovation in risk-laden activities...

External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

VAN DE VRANDE, Vareska, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim, DUYSTERS, Geert

External knowledge sourcing is increasingly important for corporate entrepreneurship. In this study, we examine the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for...

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FOREIGN COMPETITION, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND PIONEERING INNOVATION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION IN CANADA

YING LI, WIM VANHAVERBEKE

The relationship between competition and innovation has drawn great attention from economists and strategic management researchers. However, the empirical evidence for this relationship remains...

TOWARD A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON OPEN INNOVATION: A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ADOPTION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INNOVATION STRATEGIES IN THE NETHERLANDS

TOM POOT, DRIES FAEMS, WIM VANHAVERBEKE

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more dynamic perspective on open innovation by conducting a longitudinal analysis of the adoption of open innovation strategies. In order to do so, we...

Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges

Van De Vrande, Vareska, De Jong, Jeroen P. J., VANHAVERBEKE, Wim, De Rochemont, Maurice

Open innovation has so far been studied mainly in high-tech, Multinational enterprises. This exploratory paper investigates if open innovation practices are also applied by small- and medium-sized...

The Flemish frozen-vegetable industry as an example of cluster analysis: Flanders Vegetable Valley.

Larosse, J., Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Winnen, Wouter

frozen-vegetable industry; cluster analysis; high-tech valleys; research triangles; inovative entrepreneurship; knowledge tranfer; cluster formation;