Knowledge networks, collaboration networks, and innovation: a replication and extension

Firms’ innovation is doubly embedded within a collaboration network of inventors and a network of knowledge elements. To assess the distinct effects of firms’ dual-networks on innovation at different life stages of the firm, this paper replicates and extends the study of Wang, Rodan, Fruin, and Xu (2014), examining whether their argument of decoupling relationship of knowledge and collaboration network remains consistent in a differing temporal...