The role of alliance network redundancy in the creation of core and non-core technologies (2009)
Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Gilsing, Victor, Beerkens, Bonnie, Duysters, Geert
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)
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)
Debackere, Koenraad; U0002002 ;, De Brabandere, L., Hinoul, Martin; U0019689 ;, Monard, Elisabeth, Muyters, P., Quix, Fa, ...
Choosing governance modes for external technology sourcing: a real options perspective (2005)
Van De Vrande, Vareska, Lemmens, Charmianne, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim
Choosing governance modes for external technology sourcing: a real options perspective (2005)
Van De Vrande, Vareska, Lemmens, Charmianne, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim
Cabus, Peter; U0012768 ;, Vanhaverbeke, Wim; U0011866
The economics of rural areas in the proximity of urban networks: Evidence from Flanders (2003)
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...
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...
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)
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)
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...
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...
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)
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
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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 relationship between competition and innovation has drawn great attention from economists and strategic management researchers. However, the empirical evidence for this relationship remains...
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;
Management als het verk(n)open van onverzoenbare bedrijfsdoelstellingen
Paul Verdin, G. Bauwen, F. Deforche, D. Gosselin, P. Morosini, W. Schoenmakers, ...
The role of alliance network redundancy in the creation of core and non-core technologies.
Vanhaverbeke, Wim, Gilsing, Victor, Beerkens, Bonnie, Duysters, Geert