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| Author: | Banerjee, P.M. Campbell, B.A. |
| Title: | Inventor bricolage and firm technology research and development |
| Journal: | R & D Management
2009 : NOV, VOL 39:5 p. 473-487 |
| Index terms: | inventions patent law human capital management science |
| Freeterms: | intellectual property |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | We study the conditions around firm use of inventor bricolage, or the recreation of technological competences through reallocation of extant individual inventors to reach new opportunities embodied in patents. We examine both firm and individual patenting activity in publicly traded Life Science Diagnostic companies to explore how inventor bricolage relates to firms' existing R&D capabilities and external capabilities' catching through mergers and acquisitions. Firm level results suggest that breadth of inventors' human capital along with collaboration with relevant co-researchers is positively related to inventor bricolage. At the inventor level, the fewer patents an inventor has, the broader the individual's existing patent portfolio, and the more relevant co-researchers, the more likely inventors will patent in a new field. M&A does not seem to have an effect on the utilization of existing human capital. We found that R&D managers should place inventors with less assimilative capacity and more creative capacity in teams having relevant experience in order to promote inventor bricolage. |
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