PhD Thesis of Giulio Barth
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Multiple studies have validated the effects of institutions on the diffusion of scientific innovations, but there is a gap in explaining institutional emergence and change. The institutional entrepreneurship approach addresses this limitation by modeling how institutional entrepreneurs diffuse an institutional logic and then create institutions to facilitate the diffusion of innovations. In this thesis, three studies validate this end-to-end process — from institutional entrepreneurs diffusing a logic to the impact of created institutions on innovation diffusion. Drawing on quantitative analyses in the field of synthetic biology, the thesis validates theories on institutional entrepreneurs driving the diffusion of institutional logics and a positive impact of open science on knowledge diffusion.
Examiners: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl and Prof. Dr. Martin G. Möhrle
Day of Oral Doctoral Examination: 14.09.2018