Relationships Between Firms' Sources of Technologies and Their Product Market Opportunities

We investigated the relationship between sources of technology and product-market opportunities. The principal question that was investigated was: How does the overall opportunity pool of a firm depend on its mix of internally developed technologies and externally acquired technologies? Or, is it independent of the mix, and dependent only on the total number of technologies? Commonly available and reported statistics focus on total R&D spending. Even the more recent literature that focuses on the value of intangible assets like knowledge only focuses on the value of R&D expenditure. Based on our reading of the literature and conversations with managers, we came around to a conjecture that the mix matters. Our survey results indeed support our conjecture. We found to our surprise that firms having a substantial proportion of internal technologies tended to have higher number of product market opportunities. The best mix varies by industry type, i.e., high tech industries have a different best mix than do other industries.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Alexandre, Maria Tereza Cerqueira

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sudharshan, D.

• Economics, Commerce-Business

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9989927

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84612