Exploring the Antecedents of Potential Absorptive Capacity and Its Impact on Innovation Performance

Andréa Fosfuri, Josep A. Tribó · 2008 · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)

Summary. This study examines what builds a firm's potential absorptive capacity—the ability to identify and assimilate external knowledge. Using data from 2,464 Spanish innovative firms, the authors find that R&D cooperation, external knowledge acquisition, and experience with knowledge search are key drivers. Firms invest more in building this capacity during major internal changes. The research shows that potential absorptive capacity creates competitive advantage in innovation when firms have strong internal knowledge flows.

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  author  = {Andréa Fosfuri and Josep A. Tribó},
  journal = {LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)},
  year    = {2008},
  url     = {http://hdl.handle.net/10016/7446}
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Spain

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Europe

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innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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