The Many Faces of Absorptive Capacity: Spillovers of Copper Interconnect Technology for Semiconductor Chips
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Based on a case study of copper interconnect technology, I propose three kinds of absorptive capacity exist: disciplinary, domain-specific and encoded. Each depends upon distinct mechanisms and organizational tradeoffs. Absorbing disciplinary research requires a firm to actively contribute to the scientific community, while protecting its domain-specific knowledge. Absorbing domain-specific knowledge requires the firm to influence the external environment to produce such knowledge, and to hire people who possess it. Absorbing encoded knowledge requires close ties with partners to internalize bundles of routines from them. Both a firm’s internal R&D and its social networks play interrelated roles in building absorptive capacity. (100 words)
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