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abr-53	Kirkman, Dorothy; Phillips, T. Nichole	Exploration-Exploitation Motivations: An Investigation of Biotechnology Firms’ Participation in Academic Consulting	2011	18	.pdf	application/pdf	9842	616	41	This study presents hypotheses that explore whether biotechnology firms use consulting agreements as vehicles to explore new knowledge to develop their absorptive capacity and initiate a relationship with a scientist’s university or to exploit their entrepreneurial orientation or formal technology transfer experience. Assessing survey data collected from biotechnology firms, our analysis revealed significant and positive associations for exploration motives; however, the findings were mixed for exploitation motives.	cache/abr-53.pdf	txt/abr-53.txt