eprintid: 10204024
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2025-01-28 09:04:25
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sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Zhang, Jia
creators_name: Wang, Jian
creators_name: Winnink, Jos
creators_name: Jong, Simcha
title: Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
keywords: Collaboration network; Multinational R&D; 
Radical innovation; 
Tie strength; 
Structural hole
note: Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: This paper studies how tie strength and structural holes collectively affect innovation radicalness at a location within an innovating firm. We identified 16,011 inventors’ locations of the 93 most innovative U.S. pharmaceuticals and biotechnology companies on the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. We tracked their patents from 2001 to 2013 and constructed a panel dataset for analysis. Using firm-location fixed effect models, we found that the average tie strength of a location's egocentric network has a negative effect on innovation radicalness, and this negative effect is stronger when the location's egocentric network is cohesive. This suggests that weak ties have informational advantages for radical innovation, which are more pronounced when there is network cohesion to mitigate the relational disadvantages of weak ties. We also found a negative effect of structural holes on innovation radicalness when tie strength is weak but a positive effect when tie strength is strong. This indicates that strong ties are needed for mobilizing the informational advantages associated with structural holes.
date: 2025-02
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2024.101636
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2354144
doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2024.101636
lyricists_name: Jong, Simcha
lyricists_id: JSIMC08
actors_name: Jong, Simcha
actors_id: JSIMC08
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Informetrics
volume: 19
number: 1
article_number: 101636
issn: 1751-1577
citation:        Zhang, Jia;    Wang, Jian;    Winnink, Jos;    Jong, Simcha;      (2025)    Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes.                   Journal of Informetrics , 19  (1)    , Article 101636.  10.1016/j.joi.2024.101636 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2024.101636>.       Green open access   
 
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