Dr Rake Presents Paper at TIE Conference 2017 at University of Koblenz-Landau

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 11:30

Dr Bastian Rake, Lecturer in Innovation at the School of Business, recently presented a paper entitled ‘How do networks affect knowledge generation for drug development? – A study of investigator networks, knowledge domains, and knowledge generation’ at the Annual Meeting of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Division of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) which took place at the University of Koblenz-Landau.

In this paper, Bastian and his co-authors Pablo D'Este (INGENIO Valencia), Maureen McKelvey (University of Gothenburg), and Anne Assmus (University of Passau) analyse whether the interplay of structural holes and actors’ knowledge domains affects the production of new scientific knowledge in clinical trials.

Bastian’s research explores real world phenomena with a particular focus on collaboration, networks, and innovation in knowledge intense industries such as bio-pharmaceuticals. In his recent research, he analyses the relationship between the characteristics of different types of cooperation partners for knowledge generation and successful innovative activities. Moreover, he studies the internationalisation of science and R&D activities with a particular focus on the internationalisation of clinical trials.