Knowledge recombination for emerging technological innovations: The case of green shipping
研究了2007-2018年间，既有技术领域的知识网络如何通过嵌入性、邻近性和地位等机制影响绿色航运这一新兴领域的形成，发现嵌入性和邻近性作用显著，而地位作用较小。
The paper explores knowledge recombination by analysing how knowledge networks in established technological fields influenced the formation of the emerging field of green shipping in the period 2007–2018. Previous research has demonstrated that embeddedness, proximity, and status are important mechanisms for the evolution of single technological fields. We investigate if these mechanisms also apply across technological fields. By employing dynamic social network analysis models, we find that actors transferred knowledge across technological fields through (re)combination mechanisms, which affected the emergence of the new technological field, but in different ways. While embeddedness and proximity played an important role, status was less important.