We find that balanced open triads (gatekeepers and itinerant roles) are crucial to facilitate individual innovativeness, as compared to unbalanced open triads (coordinator and liaison roles).
Using an ego-network approach, this study examines whether and to what extent an individual strategic orientation to cooperation (i.e. tertius iungens) contributes to strengthening the relation between two personal network properties (structural and institutional separation) and involvement in innovation.
This article aims to provide a deeper understanding of the individual factors behind scientists’ involvement in a wide variety of knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) activities.
We explore how contact with patients facilitates biomedical scientists medical innovation output.