, and it is further important for Japanese firms to organize and manage labor skills and enhance knowledge, rather than …

Is the paradise of effortless communication the ideal environment for knowledge creation? Or, can the development of … local culture in regions raise knowledge productivity compared to a single region with a unitary culture? In other words …, can a real technological increase in the cost of collaboration and the cost of public knowledge flow between regions …

, internal and external knowledge inflows, and inventor team size. Major findings include: (1) a larger firm tends to generate … number of patents from the project, suggesting that the main source of such scale economy is not internal knowledge inflow … but appropriation advantageʺ of a large firm; (3) an inventor in a large firm often gains important knowledge for the …