... antihypertensive drugs. The study uses interview data and documentary research materials to explore the knowledge bases of the companies’ research teams as they refined an existing drug to produce new products – a process of incremental innovation. Findings Explicit knowledge (chemical structure of preceding...

... in the shaping of knowledge and the environment, the more successful they will be in transforming implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge. Research limitations/implications This study points to a new direction of interchanging implicit and explicit knowledge within firms. Practical implications...