TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowledge Transfer in the Precommercialization Phase of a New Industry
T2 - Star Scientists' (im)Mobility in the Presence of a Potential Lead User
AU - Roy, Raja
AU - Sarkar, Soumodip
N1 - Funding Information:
Thework of Soumodip Sarkarwas supported by Fundação para Ciêcia e Tecnologia (FCT), under Grant UIDP/04007/2020
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We extend prior research on industry evolution by focusing attention to knowledge transfer in the precommercialization phase of a new industry. Specifically, we build on research that highlights the role of star scientists' mobility as a mechanism of knowledge transfer to mitigate technological uncertainty and the role of potential lead users as the mechanism for knowledge transfer to reduce demand uncertainty. Using the image sensor industry's precommercialization phase as our context, we find that the star scientists of Texas Instruments, Tektronix, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, and other organizations were largely immobile, that is, rooted to the same organization. Our article not only uncovers the role of star scientists' mobility and the potential lead user as complementary mechanisms of knowledge transfer, but also highlights the boundary condition of the benefits of star scientists' mobility in the precommercialization phase of a new industry.
AB - We extend prior research on industry evolution by focusing attention to knowledge transfer in the precommercialization phase of a new industry. Specifically, we build on research that highlights the role of star scientists' mobility as a mechanism of knowledge transfer to mitigate technological uncertainty and the role of potential lead users as the mechanism for knowledge transfer to reduce demand uncertainty. Using the image sensor industry's precommercialization phase as our context, we find that the star scientists of Texas Instruments, Tektronix, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, and other organizations were largely immobile, that is, rooted to the same organization. Our article not only uncovers the role of star scientists' mobility and the potential lead user as complementary mechanisms of knowledge transfer, but also highlights the boundary condition of the benefits of star scientists' mobility in the precommercialization phase of a new industry.
KW - Industry evolution
KW - knowledge transfer
KW - lead user
KW - precommercialization phase
KW - star scientist mobility
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U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2021.3101148
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2021.3101148
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113327600
SN - 0018-9391
VL - 70
SP - 3373
EP - 3384
JO - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
IS - 10
ER -