This paper investigates the role of external knowledge in the patenting activity of inventors that work inside firms, i ….e. industrial inventors. It does so with the aim of showing that inventors who combine the use of different sources of knowledge, i … a so-called productivity approach in which the inventors? knowledge sourcing strategies are used as explanatory factors …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …