Knowledge Acquisition Asymmetries and Innovation Radicalness
基于166家大学孵化器新创企业数据，发现早期知识获取不对称性影响创新激进程度：获取客户问题与市场知识促进激进创新，而获取服务市场方式的知识则抑制激进创新。
This study extends a knowledge-based theory of opportunity discovery to innovation creation using degree of radicalness. Findings from a sample of 166 founders of new technology ventures in university incubators suggest that asymmetries in knowledge acquisition during early venture development are vital to innovation creation. Innovation radicalness was positively associated with acquiring knowledge of customer problems and markets. However, acquiring knowledge of ways to serve markets was negatively associated with innovation radicalness. This suggests a counterintuitive conclusion—the less technology entrepreneurs know about comparable offerings in the market and how to development them, the greater their chances of creating breakthrough innovations.