/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

This study identifies and measures the returns to regional, national and international knowledge sourcing for … innovation in firms with different productivity levels. We develop and estimate a model on two distinct samples using data from … knowledge sourcing vary between the least (laggards) and the most productive firms (leaders) with the outcomes consistent for …