The Role of Alliance Network Redundancy in the Creation of Core and Non‐core Technologies

This paper studies the effect of a focal firm, and its partners' local alliance actions, on the creation of technological innovations by the former. More specifically, we study how two types of redundancy in a focal firm's ego network affect its ability to create new technologies in its technology core areas (exploitation) and/or non‐core areas (exploration). We analyse this empirically in three different industry settings: chemicals, motor...