An increasing amount of knowledge is produced in teams rather than by individuals, an effect that is often attributed to benefits from division of labor. However, there is little empirical evidence regarding whether and how functional activities are divided between team members, which...

This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents to survey data at the level of the R&D lab. Using survey-based measures of the dimensions of...

In addition to generating innovations, research and development (R&D) increases a firm's capacity to utilize existing information found within its environment. Although much research focuses on new innovation R&D, little research exists regarding the role that R&D plays in a firm's learning...