1441: Knowledge and New Venture Innovation (18220)

Monday, August 12, 2024

11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Sheraton: Colorado

Session Number: 1441
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Theme,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/qdmpMY

Organizer(s)

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Yeojin Kim

U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
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Sekou Bermiss

U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Moderator(s)

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Yeojin Kim

U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
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Sekou Bermiss

U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Panelist(s)

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Martin Ganco

Wisconsin School of Business, United States
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Constance E. Helfat

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, United States
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Sonali Shah

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
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Shaker A. Zahra

U. of Minnesota, United States

This panel symposium aims to answer the question of “What is the role of knowledge in shaping new venture innovation?” We invite four scholars who have advanced the field to answer this question from various angles. Topics include 1) How does knowledge drive the creation of new ventures and innovative activities? 2) How is knowledge gained, transferred, and aggregated in new ventures? 3) How do new ventures utilize and recreate knowledge? 4) What roles do established firms and entrepreneurial ventures play in knowledge transfer and creation? and, most importantly, 5) How should we study new ventures and innovation? The goal of this symposium is to identify the assumptions in the current literature about the role of knowledge in established innovative firms and propose how these assumptions shift when applied to entrepreneurial ventures.