Abstract
This paper examines the 10-year-long dynamics of a technological innovation network (TIN) of a textile company in China. It opens the black box of the firm and provides a whole picture of the firm's internal and external innovation network. It addresses two research questions: how did the structure of the company's TIN evolve and what was the impact on the organisational learning and innovation performance of the company. The case study reveals that the connectedness of the TIN and the centrality of an actor in the TIN are positively related to more intensive, more frequent interactive learning, and also to better technological innovation performance. Nevertheless the relation is not linear. It finds that peripheral actors may also be important to the organisational learning and innovation performance, with their power not from their network position but from other capabilities they have.
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