Capturing benefits from tomorrow's technology in today's products
Subtitle: the effect of absorptive capacity
By: Daniel Snow
Contributors: Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 07-009; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 07-009
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Description: In this paper, I propose and examine a specific means by which firm R&D experience may be helping firms to improve their current-technology products: Firms that conduct future-technology R&D may be better at adapting components from related future technologies for use in their current-technology products. I use patent data to test whether automobile carburetor suppliers with higher levels of future-technology R&D activity are better at adapting components from related future technologies for use in carburetors.
Notes: "July 2006 Draft."

Includes bibliographical references.