Dynamic Capabilities with David Teece

David J. Teece

This podcast features insights on leadership, management, business, and entrepreneurship from Professor David J. Teece, readily applicable for professionals, researchers, and students around the world at every level. Professor Teece pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as “the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments.” With over 230,000 citations, he is the most cited scholar in the combined fields of business and management.

Episodes

  1. 22 AUG

    Understanding Your Capabilities for Success: David Teece with Karl Moore

    This interview with Professor David Teece, conducted by Professor Karl Moore (McGill University Faculty of Management) covers topics broadly applicable in Silicon Valley and beyond, including how managers and firms can best understand their capabilities for success in competitive environments.To learn more about the concepts discussed in this episode, here are some links to foundational readings by Professor Teece.Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management (with Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen), Strategic Management Journal 18:7 (August 1997), 509–533. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199708)18:7%3C509::AID-SMJ882%3E3.0.CO;2-ZDynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy. With Margaret Peteraf and Sohvi Leih. California Management Review, August 1, 2016, Volume 58, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2016.58.4.13Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy, Research Policy 15:6 (December 1986), 285– 305, https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(86)90027-2 (Selected by the editors as one of the best papers published by Research Policy over the period 1971–1991. Noted in 1999 as the most cited paper ever published in Research Policy.)Reflections on “Profiting from Innovation, Research Policy, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1131-1146, ISSN 0048-7333, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.009

    12 min
  2. 19 AUG

    Dynamic Competition Applied

    Towards a Capabilities Checklist - A Panel from the First Annual DCI Conference This informative panel discussion explores the linkages between #capabilities and #dynamiccompetition. The pointers offer guidance for students, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, and legislators seeking to best foster innovation-driven competition for large-scale benefits. Participants: Frédéric Jenny (OECD)David Teece (University of California, Berkeley) William Kovacic (George Washington University)Moderator: Anais Bauduin (Deloitte) This panel was originally part of the First Annual Conference of the Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI) at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), April 13 and 14, 2023, and the episode is posted with the permission of DCI.For additional information on the Dynamic Competition Initiative, visit https://www.dynamiccompetition.com/ To learn more about the concepts discussed in this video, here are some links to foundational readings by Professor Teece. Understanding Dynamic Competition: New Perspectives on Potential Competition, “Monopoly,” and Market Power (May 22, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5356023 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5356023 Integrating innovation concepts into the merger control context. With Gönenç Gürkaynak. Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2025; lpaf039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpaf039 Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy. With Margaret Peteraf and Sohvi Leih. California Management Review, August 1, 2016, Volume 58, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2016.58.4.13 Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance, Strategic Management Journal, August 7, 2007, https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.640 Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy, Research Policy 15:6 (December 1986), 285– 305 (Selected by the editors as one of the best papers published by Research Policy over the period 1971–1991. Noted in 1999 as the most cited paper ever published in Research Policy.)

    1h 3m

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This podcast features insights on leadership, management, business, and entrepreneurship from Professor David J. Teece, readily applicable for professionals, researchers, and students around the world at every level. Professor Teece pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as “the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments.” With over 230,000 citations, he is the most cited scholar in the combined fields of business and management.