Learning from openness: The dynamics of breadth in external innovation linkages
研究企业如何通过外部合作经验提升从开放中获取创新产出的能力，基于爱尔兰制造业面板数据发现，过去合作经验越丰富，当前开放带来的创新收益越大。
We explore how openness in terms of external linkages generates learning effects, which enable firms to generate more innovation outputs from any given breadth of external linkages. Openness to external knowledge sources, whether through search activity or linkages to external partners in new product development, involves a process of interaction and information processing. Such activities are likely to be subject to a learning process, as firms learn which knowledge sources and collaborative linkages are most useful to their particular needs, and which partnerships are most effective in delivering innovation performance. Using panel data from I rish manufacturing plants, we find evidence of such learning effects: establishments with substantial experience of external collaborations in previous periods derive more innovation output from openness in the current period . © 2013 The Authors. Strategic Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.