investigate firms’ capabilities to assimilate, identify and prioritize valuable knowledge across national, cultural and social … leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge … analysis we break down the complex mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers and identify conceptual links with liability of … country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …

for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …