Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Jason Owen-Smith
Barger Leadership Institute Professor & Associate Professor, Organizational Studies Associate Professor, Sociology Director, Organizational Studies Director, Barger Leadership Institute University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://www.umich.edu/~jdos
Roadmap
Who am I & how do I think? Two messages Three findings Implications for discussion
Thinking
Economists Incentives and Markets Political Scientists Interests, Coalitions & Agendas Psychologists Cognition, Perception & Biases
Messages
1. Much regional capacity exists in relationships among local organizations 2. What those connections mean depends on the types of organizations they link
Finding 1 (2004)
When universities dominate a network, information flows more freely and looser than usual connections enable biotechnology firms to innovate.
Finding 2 (2006)
Biotechnology regions that thrive do so by developing dense networks linking companies to each other Different regions have disparate organizational anchors Anchors imprint the R&D and marketing efforts of companies long after they cease to be dominant Some anchors strangle their regions by failing to cede control
Finding 3 (2010)
Georgia Washington
States with denser, stronger collaborations between VC and law firms have more diverse IPOs in several knowledge intensive industries.
Implications
Capabilities + Connections = Clusters Encourage local organizations to partner Foster cross-institutional collaborations Be(a)ware of anchor imprints Facilitate hand-offs from anchors
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Owen-Smith, Jason, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, & Walter W. Powell (2002). "A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences." Management Science. 48(1): 24-43. Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2004) "Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community." Organization Science. 15(1):5-21 Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2005) "Accounting for Emergence and Novelty in Boston and Bay Area Biotechnology." Pp.61-86 in P. Braunerhjelm & M. Feldman (Eds.) Cluster Genesis: The Emergence of Technology Clusters and Their Implications for Government Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Bunker Whittington, Kjersten, Jason Owen-Smith & Walter W. Powell. 2009. "Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Industries." Administrative Science Quarterly. 54(1): 90-122. Buhr, Helena & Jason Owen-Smith. 2010. "Networks as Institutional Support: Law Firm and Venture Capitalist Relations and Regional Diversity in High-Technology IPOs." Research in the Sociology of Work. 21:95-126.