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Keep searching and you'll find: what do we know about variety creation through firms' search activities for innovation?

Laursen, Keld
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2012
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Industrial and Corporate Change 2012, 21(5):1181-1220   10.1093/icc/dts025
Abstract
This paper critically reviews and synthesizes the contributions found in theoretical and

empirical studies of firm level innovation search processes. It explores the advantages and

disadvantages of local and non-local search, discusses organizational responses, and identifies

potential exogenous triggers for different kinds of search. It argues that the initial focus on local

search was a consequence, in part, of the attention in evolutionary economics to path-dependent

behavior, but that as localized behavior was increasingly accepted as the standard mode, studies

began to question whether local search was the best solution in all cases. More recently, the

literature has focused on the trade-offs being created, by firms having to balance local and nonlocal

search. We account also for the apparent “variety paradox” in the stylized fact that

organizations within the same industry tend to follow different search strategies, but end up with

very similar technological profiles in fast-growing technologies. The paper concludes by

highlighting what we have learnt from the literature and suggesting some new avenues for

research.
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in "Industrial and Corporate Change" following peer review. The version of record "Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 21, Number 5, pp. 1181–1220" is available online at: 10.1093/icc/dts025 .
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Oxford University Press
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Industrial and Corporate Change

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