[3] Kim B. Clark was born on March 20, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He and his family lived in Salt Lake City until 1960, when his father's new job required them to move to Spokane, Washington.

Clark matriculated at Harvard University in 1967 as a pre-med major and left after his freshman year to serve as a missionary for the LDS Church in Germany.

[4] With a variety of co-authors, Clark published an important series of studies on technological innovation.

The organizational linkages, or integration, required to accomplish an innovation is a thread that runs through these studies.