Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89311 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2012/09
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
In this paper we propose a new mental representation of how markets, technology and their interaction concur in explaining the why of a certain innovation instead of another. We empirically test this theory in the telecommunication switches industry. We consider innovation as a new alignment of needs and opportunities, where markets and technology are not the sources, but the actors in this alignment process. In order to accomplish this task, we suggest proxies for technological opportunities, market needs, and, at the same time, for interactions of these two elements. We make use of a statistical tool that grasps the matching nature of this interactive phenomenon.
Subjects: 
user-producer interaction
two-mode network
telecommunication manufacturing industry
JEL: 
O30
O31
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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