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    Cooperating with technologically (dis)similar alliance partners: the influence of the technology life cycle and the impact on innovative and market performance
    (Taylor & Francis, 2015) Stolwijk, C. C. M.; den Hartigh, Erik; Vanhaverbeke, W. P. M.; Ortt, J. R.; Beers, C. van; Entrepreneurship; HARTIGH, Erık Den
    In this paper, we investigate the cooperative relationships of innovating firms with (dis)similar partners during the technology life cycle. We test the impact of such cooperative relationships on the innovative and market performance of these firms. To do so, we use a sample of 83 Application Specific Integrated Circuit firms over the period 1986–2005. We find that working with partners that are technologically similar improves innovative and market performance early on in the technology life cycle. Working with partners that are technologically dissimilar improves innovative and market performance later on in the technology life cycle. These results indicate that innovating firms have to change their partnership from technologically similar towards technologically dissimilar over the technology life cycle.
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    The effect of internal and external technology sourcing on firm performance throughout the technology life cycle
    (Informa Group Company, 2012) Stolwijk, C. C. M.; Vanhaverbeke, W. P. M.; Ortt, J. R.; Pieters, M. W.; den Hartigh, Erik; Beers, C. van; Entrepreneurship; HARTIGH, Erık Den
    In studies about the impact of technology sourcing on firm performance, the impact of the technology life cycle has thus far received scant attention. This paper investigates this topic from the knowledge-based perspective. Data was gathered from 22 PLD (Programmable Logic Device) manufacturers in the integrated circuit industry between 1986 and 2005, and used to test two hypotheses based on panel analysis: (1) that strategic alliance networks, as a mode of external technology sourcing, have a positive effect on a firm's innovative and market performance early in the technology life cycle, and (2) that internal development as a mode of internal technology sourcing has a positive effect on a firm's innovative and market performance later in the technology life cycle. Although both hypotheses are supported as far as market performance is concerned, neither is supported when it comes to innovative performance.