Conference proceeding
Status Differentiation And R&D Team Innovation: U.S. Pharmaceutical Patents, 1975-99
Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
01 Jan 2008
Abstract
Scholars have noted the central role of teams as a key driver of innovation, but a core question that remains is how these innovation teams should be designed. This research investigates the effect of status differentiation on R&D team innovation. More specifically, it examines a central, yet relatively unresolved issue: Is a hierarchical team or an egalitarian team more innovative? The authors utilized a complete dataset of US patents (1975-99). Since co-inventors are usually team members who make significant contributions, they are taken as a proxy of a R&D team. They find that a hierarchical team performs better than an egalitarian one only if the hierarchical level is suitably high. However, if the hierarchical level is low, then an egalitarian team in which none of the team members had any previous productivity performs better.
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- Title
- Status Differentiation And R&D Team Innovation: U.S. Pharmaceutical Patents, 1975-99
- Creators
- Dali MaJonathan Ziegert
- Publication Details
- Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
- Conference
- Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
- Publisher
- Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Identifiers
- 991020594557804721