TY  - CHAP
AB  - Where are the ultimate sources of technological breakthroughs? What makes a firm more likely to invent a breakthrough or to exploit external breakthroughs? We develop an evolutionary model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search and to develop theory that can be tested by modeling the higher moments of search processes. Recent methodological and data collection advances make such testing possible. We motivate further research, develop our model's strategic implications, and discuss how managers might create and respond to breakthroughs.
VL  - 23
SN  - 978-1-84950-435-5, 978-0-76231-338-9/0742-3322
DO  - 10.1016/S0742-3322(06)23011-0
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0742-3322(06)23011-0
AU  - Fleming Lee
AU  - Szigety Mark
ED  - Joel A.C. Baum
ED  - Stanislav D. Dobrev
ED  - Arjen Van Witteloostuijn
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Exploring the Tail of Creativity: An Evolutionary Model of Breakthrough Invention
T2  - Ecology and Strategy
T3  - Advances in Strategic Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 335
EP  - 359
Y2  - 2024/05/09
ER  -