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- SAGE
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- © 1998 The Regents of the University of California
- ISSN
- 0008-1256
- eISSN
- 2162-8564
- DOI
- 10.2307/41165951
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Abstract
Firms as Knowledge Brokers: LESSONS IN PURSUING CONTINUOUS INNOVATION Andrew B. Hargadon n 1877, after one year of operation, a single laboratory had developed a set of technologies that would revolutionize the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and incandescent light industries. The laboratory belonged Ito Thomas Edison and, from 1876 to 1881, it produced innovations in high- speed, automatic, and repeating telegraphs, telephones, phonographs, genera- tors, voltmeters, mimeographs, light bulbs and filaments, and vacuum pumps. It also produced many promising but ultimately fruitless innovations in iron mining, electric railroads, thermal sensors, ink for the blind, electric sewing machines, and vacuum storage of food. Edison built the laboratory, in his own words, for the “rapid and cheap development of an invention,” and he promised “a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so.” He delivered. In six years of operation, the laboratory generated over 400 patents and was known worldwide as an invention factory. To the public, Edison exploited the image of inventor as hero and lone genius, but in truth his greatest invention of all may have been the invention factory itself. The Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory represented the first dedi- cated research and
Journal
California Management Review – SAGE
Published: Apr 1, 1998