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01/04/2015 · A technology shock may simultaneously unleash significant innovation opportunities while creating great uncertainty in the economic environment. Though it is well known that firms often use alliances both to respond to uncertainty and facilitate innovation, little is known about how technology shocks affect the collaboration behavior of firms and how …06/02/2015 · A technology shock may simultaneously unleash significant innovation opportunities, while creating great uncertainty in the economic environment. Though it is well-known that firms often use alliances both to respond to uncertainty and facilitate innovation, little is known about how technology shocks affect the collaboration behavior of firms, and how …technology shocks and their resultant collaboration activity, it is possible to significantly overestimate the effect of each on important outcomes. Innovation outcomes attributed to alliance patterns, for example, may actually be due in part to an underlying technology shock that influenced both alliance activity and innovation activities.considering both technology shocks and their resul-tant collaboration activity, it is possible to significantly overestimate the effect of each on important outcomes. Innovation outcomes attributed to alliance patterns, for example, may actually be due in part to an underlying technology shock that influenced both alliance activityTECHNOLOGY SHOCKS, TECHNOLOGICAL COLLABORATION, AND INNOVATION OUTCOMES Abstract A major technology shock can have a profound effect on numerous economic activities and outcomes. A technology shock may simultaneously unleash significant innovation opportunities, while creating great uncertainty in the economic environment.collaboration network, it can set up an endog enous cycle of innovation: A technology shock increases the degree and/or diversity of alliance form ation, which creates a …