Managing Creativity in Small Worlds Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Big job mobility of scientists and engineers from the expansion of social networks of inventors are becoming more connected. As a result, the invention more often occurs in small worlds (or social network) along the boundaries of the firm. Small worlds and provide strategic opportunities and potential threats, while they can increase creativity in the firm, they also help in the dissemination of creative knowledge with other firms through staff and knowledge transfer. Firms in small worlds, such as Silicon Valley, have long since learned to manage the invention in terms of rampant spillovers of knowledge across firm boundaries. Now, however, all firms must learn to manage innovation in a small room in the world. gives advice on how to do this. "Hide
by Lee Fleming, Matthew Marks Source: California Management Review 24 pages. Publication Date: Aug 01, 2006. Prod. #: CMR343-PDF-ENG

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