Research summary. Firms in technology-based settings must mobilize individual knowledge to continuously execute … innovative new opportunities. Because knowledge is generally conceptualized at the firm-level, however, we have only a limited … understanding of how individual-level knowledge aggregates to firm-level outcomes. We develop a microfoundational theory to examine …

knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of … knowledge structures. We end with a discussion of implications for future research on organizing for innovation …How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse …

We examine how IPOs and acquisitions affect entrepreneurial innovation as measured by patent counts and forward patent … completing the transaction for reasons unrelated to innovation, and (2) using an instrumental variables approach. We find that … innovation quality is highest under private ownership and lowest under public ownership, with acquisition intermediate between …