This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity … with domestic partners. We do not find a significant effect for employing inventors with access to international knowledge … or for collaborating with international partners. International knowledge acquisition is only effective if conducted via …

knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of … achieving that: diversity of inventor-held knowledge within a given knowledge production team (“within-team knowledge diversity …”). We introduce the concept of “across-team knowledge diversity,” which captures the distribution of inventor knowledge …