Francisco Veloso

Universidade Católica Portuguesa | UCP · Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics

Considering that modern science is conducted primarily through a network of collaborators who organize themselves around key researchers, this research develops and tests a characterization and assessment method that recognizes the particular endogenous, or self-organizing characteristics of research groups. Instead of establishing an ad-hoc unit o...

This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this "catching up" hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to ge...

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Considerable research in strategy and innovation management has been devoted to examining when and how firms accumulate resources in the name of diversification, firm growth, and capability development. Yet, little empirical work has focused on when firms disband resources they had invested in and how this decision to disband resources is affected...

Data on inventors and assignees of patents are used to analyze the mobility of semiconductor inventors. Exploiting data on the origins of semiconductor producers with larger sales, we argue that the higher mobility of semiconductor inventors in Silicon Valley is in great part due to the entry of spinoffs there. Our empirical evidence suggests that...

This paper aims to further our understanding of how embeddedness affects the research output and impact of scientists. The analysis uses an extensive panel data that allows an analysis of within person variation over time. It explores the simultaneous effects of different dimensions of network embeddedness over time at individual level. These inclu...

We analyze innovation proposals submitted by employees of a large information and communication technology firm to an idea management system (IMS). We find that employees innovate in various ways, including modifying internal processes, creating new products and services, or significantly changing the way the firm delivers an existing service. We a...

This empirical study demonstrates that teaching and research can be leveraged synergistically and contribute to research outputs. In particular, it is critical to consider the nature of the learning environment associated with the teaching effort. First, by distinguishing between graduate and undergraduate education, the authors conclude that invol...

This paper examines the extent to which users in emerging economies innovate, and whether these innovations are meaningful on a global stage. To study this issue, we conducted an empirical investigation into the origin and types of innovations in financial services offered via mobile phones, a global, multi-billion dollar industry where emerging ec...

Mechanisms such as triadic closure and preferential at-tachment drive the evolution of social networks. Many models use these mechanisms to predict future links, and they generate realistic networks with scale-free degree distributions. These social networks also have community structure, or sets of vertices which are more connected to each other t...

Data on assignees of patenters are used to analyze the mobility of semiconductor inventors. A model of the entry and staffing of spinoffs of incumbent producers is developed to explain the higher mobility of semiconductor inventors in Silicon Valley. Exploiting data on the origins of semiconductor producers with larger sales, we argue that the grea...

This paper studies how problem framing by research and development groups, in particular the extent of problem decomposition, impacts knowledge replication processes conducted through the use of virtual simulation tools (VSTs). It presents the results of a comparative study of two research and development groups working on the design of hybrid prop...

The business value of information technology is an enduring research question. This research provides new insights to better understand the mechanisms supporting this relation by analyzing the impact of knowledge management tools (KMTs) on the performances of business units involved in inter-firm collaborative innovation projects. We extend current...

In this article we investigate the long term impact of value chain offshoring on the global spatial distribution of innovation activities. The study relies on a sample of 14, 806 rare earth technology patents from 1976 to 2002 and the associated location of over 36, 000 inventors. We employ the interpoint distance between inventors to examine the c...

A bibliometric analysis of the Bacillus anthracis and Ebola virus archival literature was conducted to determine whether negative consequences of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" (USA PATRIOT) Act and the 2002 Bioterrorism Preparedness Act on US select agent research...

This article investigates how regulated automakers and upstream component suppliers comply with “technology-forcing” regulations, or laws that set performance standards beyond their usual technological capabilities. In particular, this article examines how firms manage and organize their research and development (R&D) processes concerning automobil...

The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement. Despite this perception, existing work on academic inbreeding is scarce and mostly exploratory. Using data from Mexico, we find evidence that, firs...

This study examines the organizational knowledge creation processes in two highly virtual teams involved in new product development projects in the automotive industry. Using Nonaka's model of knowledge creation, we explore how the virtualization of knowledge-based processes, i.e. the intensive exploitation of information and communication technolo...

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 This presentation was part of the session : Science and Innovation Workforce Council for Science and Technology (Mexico)

Attention to processes has increased, as thousands of organizations have adopted process-focused programs such as TQM and ISO 9000. Proponents of such programs stress the promise of improved efficiency and profitability. But research has not consistently borne out these prospects. Moreover, the expectation of universal benefits is not consistent wi...

This paper analyzes how uncertainty and life-cycle effects condition the knowledge boundary between assemblers and suppliers in interfirm product development. Patents associated with automotive emission control technologies for both assemblers and suppliers are categorized as architectural or component innovations, and technology-forcing regulation...

This paper examines the relationship between the social capital and knowledge creation in research, mostly in the context of universities. The analysis is developed considering all of the following critical aspects of social capital: direct ties, strengths of direct ties, density, structural holes, centrality, and external-internal index in terms o...

Many US firms are improving their individual competitiveness by offshoring manufacturing operations, services and, increasingly, knowledge work. Although research to date has maintained that these practices are beneficial to the offshoring firm and national economies, by reducing costs and expanding markets, little is known about the longer term ef...

This research examines the sources of innovation for automobile emission control technologies from 1970 to 1998. What is particularly interesting about the technological change involved in the development of the automobile emission control technology is that this technology evolved following the logic of nested hierarchies (Clark (1985) and emergen...

knowledge creation in two highly virtualized teams, one involved in the design of a small city car and the second in the re-design of a small industrial vehicle. Using Nonaka's model of organizational knowledge creation, we explore how the virtualization of knowledge based processes, i.e. the intensive exploitation of ICTs in support of knowledge-b...

Recent reports suggest that, during the 1990s, the EU15 overcame the US in scientific output. This paper provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the evolution of the EU15 and US scientific output and impact throughout the 1990s, looking at publications and impact trends by scientific field. Results show that changes in scientific productio...

This paper explores recent trends in the scientific collaboration of the most productive academic engineers in Mexico. First, an analysis of team size, institutional and international collaboration is explored. Then, the relationship between social capital and knowledge creation is examined. For this purpose, knowledge creation is measured by resea...

This paper analyzes the contribution of Virtual Design Tools (VDTs) to the processes of knowledge replication and recombination in the context of product innovation. On the basis of an in depth case study of two automotive firms engaged in two comparable new product development projects, we show that knowledge replication can occur in two distinct...

This paper uses a unique data set of Mexican researchers to explore the determinants of research output and impact. Our findings confirm a quadratic relationship between age and the number of published papers. However, publishing peaks when researchers are approximately 53 years old, 5 or 10 years later than what prior studies have shown. Overall,...

We analyze how transaction cost economics and competence arguments determine vertical organization boundaries when firms react to innovation. Existing perspectives and empirical evidence have been ambiguous because of conflicting tensions between the two frameworks and simplistic views of innovation. Using Henderson and Clark's (1990) innovation ca...

We present evidence that importing is a source of international technology transfer. Using a detailed panel of Indonesian manufacturers, our analysis shows that firms in industries supplying increasingly import-intensive sectors have higher productivity growth than other firms. This finding suggests that linkages through vertical supply relationshi...

In industrializing regions, foreign investments often generate spillovers through regional backward links. This situation may create a gap between private and social valuations of resources, resulting in a level of local content below what would be optimal for the economy. This situation creates an opportunity for the enactment of domestic content...

We present evidence that importing is a driver of international technol-ogy transfer. Using a detailed panel of Indonesian manufacturers, our analysis shows that firms in industries supplying increasingly import-intensive sectors have higher productivity growth than other firms. This finding suggests that linkages through vertical supply relationsh...

Building on emerging research on knowledge partitioning and an information processing view of product development, this study examines the impact of task uncertainty on the knowledge boundary between manufacturers and suppliers in automobile industry. Using successfully applied patents in automobile emission control technologies from 1970 to 1998,...

The primary aim of this investigation is to understand the impact of government regulations on innovation in the development of automotive emission control systems. Analysis of regulatory measures and a longitudinal study of patenting indicate that governmental actions in the form of "technology-forcing" standards have stimulated innovations.

While much attention has been devoted to information and communication technologies, a more fundamental change at the start of the new millennium is the increasing importance of innovation for economic prosperity and the emergence of a learning society. The analysis in this paper shows that innovation should be understood as a broad social and econ...

The paper discusses how the ability of the automotive supply chain to exchange information and goods affects cost, comparing a traditional supply configuration to an e‐supply chain, with information sharing over the internet. It proposes a simple model to replicate the functioning and cost structure of the supply chain, focusing the analysis on pot...

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the major trends taking place in the automotive industry across the world, with an emphasis on the Asian market. It is not a comprehensive report, but rather an informed view of the issues and a panorama of the behavior of the major players, both automakers and suppliers. In the final section...

Combining recent theoretical results related to the ownership structure of the firm with the notion of modular design, this paper provides a new framework to analyze the decision of the automakers of whether to develop a new component in-house or to subcontract it to a supplier. Older frameworks associated with transaction costs or principal–agent...

Combining recent theoretical results related to the ownership structure of the firm with the notion of modular design, this paper provides a new framework to analyze the decision of the automakers of whether to develop a new component in-house or to subcontract it to a supplier. Older frameworks associated with transaction costs or principal–agent...

This dissertation addresses the issue of performance standards in developing nations, focusing on the role of local content requirements. It proposes a theoretical framework to understand the impact of this policy on the decisions of firms and the welfare of the domestic economy, and offers a methodology to apply the analysis to the context of the...

The current paper explores the role of incentives, infrastructure, and institutions in late-industrializing countries. We argue that all three dimensions are critical to understand differences in technological development and industrial trajectories across countries, because they shape government policies and firm strategies in terms of exports, su...

The current paper explores the role of incentives, infrastructure, and institutions in late-industrializing countries. We argue that all three dimensions are critical to understand differences in technological development and industrial trajectories across countries, because they shape government policies and firm strategies in terms of exports, su...

The paper analyses how technology, market and policy issues condition the adoption of aluminum in the manufacturing of auto engine blocks in Brazil. Due to important weight savings, there is a clear tendency in the auto industry to change engine material from iron and steel to aluminum. This tendency has started in the triad market area, mostly bec...

Automotive assemblers' global sourcing strategy is pushing their suppliers to have an equally global presence. Until recently this trend was confined to large companies, which expanded their presence to new locations through the exploitation of unique knowledge assets. This movement has a good fit with existing theories of foreign investment. More...

Recently, 8 nations applied for an extension of the period allowing them to demand performance requirements into local investments; several others may follow suit. The decision to scrap these regulations had been established in 1995, through the signature of the WTO agreement. Developing nations had been given until 2002 as a transition period to d...

Indicators for the Portuguese moulds industry show a record of strong growth contrasting with poor productivity. This raises the question of whether the growth strategy chosen by the companies is anchored in the right capabilities, and if this can endanger future development. This paper presents the results of a set of technology and innovation aud...

Indicators for the Portuguese moulds industry show a record of strong growth contrasting with poor productivity. This raises the question of whether the growth strategy chosen by the companies is anchored in the right capabilities, and if this can endanger future development. This paper presents the results of a set of technology and innovation aud...

Following a model that conceptualizes the function of technology infrastructures (TIs), a set of principles to define a public financing methodology for these institutions is proposed. The problem of public funding for technological innovation is analyzed in the context of industrial policy, considered as state intervention in the market with the a...

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This paper presents evidence that, over a two year period, innovating leads to productivity losses: innovating firms grow less in productivity than non-innovating firms. It also shows that firms with higher productivity levels tend to innovate more than the average. These findings are consistent with adjustment costs/liquidity constraints explanati...

Although innovation drives productivity growth at the macro level and in the long run, at the micro level and in the short run innovative firms may grow less rapidly in productivity than the average. Using micro data from the third community innovation survey, which includes explicit information on innovative activity at the firm level, this paper...

This paper uses a unique data set of Mexican researchers to explore the determinants of research productivity. Our findings confirm a quadratic relationship between age and productivity. However, productivity peaks when researchers are approximately 53 years old, 5 or 10 years later than what prior studies have shown. These results suggest that age...

This study aims at a better understanding of how firms arrange and profit from their technological competencies. In particular, it presents a contribution to the diversification-performance literature by dealing with a still poorly researched aspect of diversification, namely technological diversification, while controlling for market diversificati...

Attention to processes has increased, as thousands of organizations have adopted processfocused practices, including TQM and ISO 9000. Proponents of such programs stress the promise of improved efficiency and profitability. But research has not consistently borne out these prospects. Moreover, the expectation of universal benefits is not consistent...

Recent research shows that to understand vertical scope we need to combine transaction cost and capabilities to look at all firm's choices in terms of expanding vertically or continuing focused. The main implication is that industry competition dynamics, evolution, and vertical scope should be jointly considered. Yet existing research has not adequ...

This paper describes how firms’ propensity to carry out component (or architectural) innovation is influenced by the degree of task uncertainty during inter-firm product development. Using successfully applied patents in automobile emission control technologies from 1970 to 1998; this research shows that assemblers’ and suppliers’ propensity to exp...