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 …