Innovation search: the role of innovation intermediaries in the search process
研究了企业越来越多使用创新中介的情况下，创新搜索如何被概念化，发现搜索过程比以往认为的更复杂、更广泛，涉及多个阶段和松散耦合的迭代过程，且创新中介承担了更扩展的新角色。
The aim of this paper is to explore how innovation search is conceptualised, given that firms increasingly use innovation intermediaries. The paper examines the search processes which involves the role of innovation intermediaries in different stages of the innovation search process. The study discovered that innovation search activity is a much more extended and complex process, not being as targeted or as specific than previously conceptualised, and involves a set of search stages, which are associated with a loosely coupled iterative search process. Innovation intermediaries were also discovered to be undertaking new, more extended roles in the search process, through, for example, combining new search procedures with online digital platforms.