... inventors and cognitive distance between mobile inventors and new employers on the correlation between network embeddedness and creativity. Findings This study found that: (1) The increase of tie strength has a significant boost in creativity. (2) Increasing structural holes can significantly improve...

...Yue Song; Naiding Yang; Yanlu Zhang; Jingbei Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore how the number of structural holes influences the possibility of risk propagation in R&D networks; and second, to investigate how the specific context of tie strength and common...