This paper analyzes the effects of a potential spillover on technology transfer of a multinational enterprise and on the host country policy. In particular, we examine how both parties’ incentives can be controlled through the ownership structure in an international joint venture. In contrast to existing arguments we show that spillovers must not always have negative effects on technology trans...

The growth of the world’s economy depends on knowledge creation; an aspect that allows innovation. Universities create, store, transmit knowledge, and conduct PhD research programs which are innovative. Although most of this knowledge is well stored, it is not transmitted, developed further, and sometimes not reused. Similarly, UK SMEs are said to be the innovation champions, but most SMEs’ ide...

A central goal of cognitive science is to develop a general theory of transfer to explain how people use and apply their prior knowledge to solve new problems. Previous work has identified multiple mechanisms of transfer including (but not limited to) analogy, knowledge compilation, and constraint violation. The central hypothesis investigated in the current work is that the particular profile ...

Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layerwise pre-training has found strong theoretical foundation and broad empirical support. However, it is not easy to employ such method to pre-train models without a clear ...

We present the development and validity field testing of two new measures: Absorptive Capacity and Experienced Community of Practice. We propose the Knowledge Transfer Ecosystem (KTE) as a model for organizing the different facets of knowledge transfer. We used a holdout sample of 1,980 engineers from a larger study in a Fortune 500 technology company to develop and test a 9-item scale of Absor...

search, review for relevance, classifying and rating quality, and then synthesising and validating papers. Jones et al., 2009 Knowledge, Policy and Power Six dimensions of the knowledge– development policy interface To investigate how various types of knowledge are used across contexts, sectors and with different actors – and thus what can be deduced about the knowledge translation process. Pro...

Recent business trends have given rise to coopetition: simultaneous cooperation and competition between firms. Coopetition entails the sharing of knowledge which may be a key source of competitive advantage. Under coopetition there is a paradox that the knowledge shared for cooperation may also be used for competition. While the existence of this problem is known, there is little investigation ...

Knowledge transfer has been an important issue for organizational knowledge management programs. This article reviews the plethora of user-generated video activity and the issues it creates for knowledge management activities. Video’s media richness combined with its ability to convey rich narratives can facilitate sensemaking and learning. However, structure and culture are important factors t...

Learning to think is about transfer. The scope of transfer is essentially a knowledge representation question. Experiences during learning can lead to alternative latent representations of the acquired knowledge, not all of which are equally useful. Productive learning facilitates a general representation that yields accurate behavior in a large variety of new situations, thus enabling transfer...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at some of the factors that influence the transfer of tacit knowledge between two product development partners. Design/methodology/approach – Research involved the collection of both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data was based on 13 interviews with various individuals, representing three companies, charged with integrating ext...