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. 2021 Mar 31;72(4):967–1016. doi: 10.1007/s11301-021-00218-9

Table 6.

Definitions and measurement of radical innovation used in each paper

References Determinants Direction of relationship with radical drug innovation Definition of radical innovation Measurement of radical innovation
Achilladelis (1993) R&D spending Positive Based on different scientific principles, technology, or materials which have replaced or competed successfully with existing products The author assigns certain antibiotic drugs as radical innovation while others are deemed to be incremental innovation. No clear decision or framework for the differentiation
Arnold and Troyer (2016) R&D spending Positive No definition Joint NME and Priority Review count
Marketing spending Negative
Belderbos et al. (2016) R&D alliances with universities: direct collaborations for pharmaceutical companies with a high level of scientific absorptive capacity; indirect collaborations for pharmaceutical companies with a low level of scientific absorptive capacity Positive No definition Patent count
Cammarano et al. (2017a) R&D outsourcing Negative Technological originality; generates a new combination of technological components Patent count
Purchase of external technology Positive
M&As Negative
Cammarano et al. (2017b) R&D outsourcing Negative No definition Patent count
Knowledge stock of an organization Negative
Cardinal (2001) Scientific diversity Positive No definition NME count
Centralization Positive
Formalization Positive
Frequency of performance appraisals Positive
Goal specificity Positive
Rewards/recognition for output Positive
Cohen and Caner (2016) R&D alliance network (heterogeneous knowledge) Curvilinear Advance the state of the technology or represent a completely new type of product NME count
Knowledge stock of an organization Positive
DiMasi (2000) Internal R&D Positive No definition NME count
Therapeutic area focus Positive
Dunlap-Hinkler et al. (2010) Firm size Positive Radical innovations start the cycle of technological change NME count
Prior radical innovations Positive
Prior incremental innovations (generics) Negative
Joint ventures/strategic alliances Positive
Dunlap et al. (2014) Cross-national knowledge from intra-firm sources Positive The degree of novelty or change embedded in the innovation; needs to be new to the market NME count
R&D spending Positive
Dunlap et al. (2016) R&D alliances Positive Scientific novelty Joint NME and Priority Review count
M&As Negative
Eslaminosratabadi (2018)a R&D alliances with universities and other biotech firms Positive New product that incorporates a substantially different core technology and offers significantly higher benefits to customer Joint NME and Priority Review count
R&D alliances with other, larger pharmaceutical firms Negative
Fernald et al. (2017) M&As of (start-up) biotechs Negative No definition NME count
M&As of other, larger pharmaceutical firms Positive
R&D alliances with (start-up) biotechs Positive
Firm size Positive
Jong and Slavova (2014) Open science strategies (publication in science journals and joint ventures/alliances) Positive A genuinely new product NME count
Firm size Positive
Firm age Positive
Knowledge stock of an organization Positive
Kamuriwo et al. (2017) R&D alliances Positive Products that create entirely new markets or radically change existing ones Patent count
Karamanos (2012) R&D alliances (direct ties) Curvilinear The creation of technological knowledge that falls outside the firm’s existing know-how Patent count
R&D alliances (embedded in a dense network) Curvilinear
Karamanos (2014) R&D alliances (firm’s partner’s centrality in the network) Positive No definition Patent count
Karamanos (2016) R&D alliances (firm’s partner’s centrality in the network) Positive The creation of technological knowledge that falls outside the firm’s existing know-how Patent count
R&D alliances (indirect ties or structural holes) Positive
Firm size Positive
Keyrouz (2013)a Market orientation (customer orientation and technological orientation) Positive High level of newness and high level of customer need fulfillment Joint NME and Priority Review count
Malva et al. (2015) Basic science Positive Inventions with a high impact on subsequent inventive activity Patent count
Park and Tzabbar (2016) Venture capital funding (for early stage R&D ventures) Positive Recombination of knowledge components that is new in a given industry Patent count
CEO’s structural power Positive
Phene et al. (2006) Technologically distant knowledge of national origin Curvilinear No definition Patent count
Technologically proximate knowledge of international origin Positive
Qi Dong et al. (2017) R&D alliances (with other central organizations in an alliance network) Curvilinear Paradigm shifts in technological trajectories; can lead to the creation of new customers and new markets Patent count
Quintana-García and Benavides-Velasco (2011) R&D alliances (access to complementary technology) Positive No definition NME count
Firm size Positive
R&D spending Positive
Singh and Fleming (2010) Internal R&D collaboration (team affiliation and organization affiliation vs. being a lone inventor) Positive No definition Patent count
Sorescu et al. (2003) Firm size (sales, assets, profits) Positive Novel technology plus substantial customer benefits Joint NME and Priority Review count
Sternitzke (2010) Basic research Positive Novel technology plus substantial customer benefits Joint NME and Priority Review count
Knowledge stock of an organization Positive
Supriyadi (2013)a Firm's resources (e.g., technology and talents) and culture Positive No definition NDA counts
Suzuki (2018) Organizational slack Positive Identifying or generating new knowledge that is beyond the scope of current business NME counts
Suzuki and Methe (2014) Local search (i.e., searching for new knowledge in close distance to the existing knowledge of a firm) Positive No definition NME counts
R&D spending Positive
R&D alliances (frequency) Positive
Tzabbar and Margolis (2017) Educational heterogeneity of founding team Positive No definition Patent count
Founding experience Positive
Watts and Hamilton (2013) Applied science Positive No definition Therapeutic evidence (TE) codes from the FDA’s Orange Book
M&As (only for firms dedicated to basic science) Positive
Wuyts et al. (2004) R&D spending Positive Different core technology; provide substantially greater customer benefits than previous products in the industry Joint NME and Priority Review count
R&D alliances (repeated partnering) Positive
Technological diversity Positive
Xu (2015) Knowledge breadth Curvilinear Incorporation of significantly new technology into product offerings; offer substantially improved product benefits to serve customer needs Joint NME and Priority Review count
Xu et al. (2013) R&D alliances Negative No definition Joint NME and Priority Review count
Internal technological knowledge strength Curvilinear
Yeoh and Roth (1999) R&D spending (direct impact) Negative No definition NME count
M&D spending (sales force) Positive
Zheng and Yang (2015) R&D alliances (repeated partnering) Curvilinear High-impact innovations with the potential to introduce new technological trajectories or paradigm shifts Patent count
Zucker et al. (2002) R&D alliances (with star scientists at leading universities) Positive No definition Number of research articles written jointly by corporate and star scientists

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