The Proposal of Metrics and Evaluation Methods to Explicit Knowledge of the Absorptive Capacity

Autores

  • Kenji Miyake
  • Yoshiyuki Matsuura
  • Ken Kaminishi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24212/2179-3565.2014v5i2p42-55

Palavras-chave:

Absorptive Capacity, External knowledge, Open Innovation

Resumo

The importance of Absorptive Capacity has been stated in many previous researches.When small and medium-sized enterprises with poor management resources perform productdevelopment with an outside-in open innovation approach, one of the important factorsdetermining the success or failure is Absorptive Capacity of the licensing-in company thatform a foundation of technology learning. In this paper, we propose a method for evaluatingthe Absorptive Capacity of the company, and it is intended to propose a method for utilizingAbsorptive Capacity as a measurement of “readiness” to external knowledge.

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Publicado

2014-01-31

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v. 5 n. 2 (2014)

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