Development of indicators of absorptive capacity at micro and macro levels
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| Event Name | Development of indicators of absorptive capacity at micro and macro levels |
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| Start Date | Feb 28, 2019 12:00 pm |
| End Date | Feb 28, 2019 1:00 pm |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Description | Interested guests are always welcome, from within or outside of the university! No registration is needed if you are internal, please just join us. If you are external to the University, please just send us an email to let us know you will be joining us, and we will inform our reception desk to expect you. Contact and further information: Research Manager for the School of Business, email: busresearch@lsbu.ac.uk This week's seminar presentation will be given by Professor Grazia Ietto-Gillies, Emeritus Professor, LSBU and Visiting Research Professor, Birkbeck, University of London & Dr Marion Frenz, Reader in Management, Birkbeck, University of London. To give you a taste of the session, a brief abstract can be found below: The concept of absorptive capacity (ACAP) has become a very relevant part of innovation studies since the seminal work of Cohen and Levinthal (1989). Nonetheless there is ambiguity regarding the concept itself and more so with regard to its operationalisation. This research concentrates on the operationalisation side and, specifically, on the development of indicators of ACAP. It makes the following contributions: (1) development of an alternative framework based on absorption-enabling infrastructures; (2) identification of distinct dimensions of infrastructures and of relevant variables within them. The operationalisation is inspired by emphasis on: soft infrastructures; comparability across firms, sectors and countries; and policy relevance. |