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From wires to partners / Chris Forman in Management science, Vol. 58 N° 8 (Août 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 8 (Août 2012) . - PP.1549-1568 Titre : From wires to partners : How the internet has fostered R&D collaborations within firms Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Chris Forman, Auteur ; Nicolas Van Zeebroeck, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : PP.1549-1568 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : R&D  organization  Geography  of  innovation  Internet  adoption  IT  investments  Collaborative  work Résumé : How did the diffusion of the Internet influence research collaborations within firms? We examine the relationship between business use of basic Internet technology and the size and geographic composition of industrial research teams between 1992 and 1998. We find robust empirical evidence that basic Internet adoption is associated with an increased likelihood of collaborative patents from geographically dispersed teams. On the contrary, we find no evidence of such a link between Internet adoption and within-location collaborative patents, nor do we find any evidence of a relationship between basic Internet and single-inventor patents. We interpret these results as evidence that adoption of basic Internet significantly reduced the coordination costs of research teams, but find little evidence that a drop in the costs of shared resource access significantly improved research productivity. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/8/1549.short [article] From wires to partners : How the internet has fostered R&D collaborations within firms [texte imprimé] / Chris Forman, Auteur ; Nicolas Van Zeebroeck, Auteur . - 2012 . - PP.1549-1568. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 8 (Août 2012) . - PP.1549-1568 Mots-clés : R&D  organization  Geography  of  innovation  Internet  adoption  IT  investments  Collaborative  work Résumé : How did the diffusion of the Internet influence research collaborations within firms? We examine the relationship between business use of basic Internet technology and the size and geographic composition of industrial research teams between 1992 and 1998. We find robust empirical evidence that basic Internet adoption is associated with an increased likelihood of collaborative patents from geographically dispersed teams. On the contrary, we find no evidence of such a link between Internet adoption and within-location collaborative patents, nor do we find any evidence of a relationship between basic Internet and single-inventor patents. We interpret these results as evidence that adoption of basic Internet significantly reduced the coordination costs of research teams, but find little evidence that a drop in the costs of shared resource access significantly improved research productivity. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/8/1549.short