technologically. We scrutinize to what extent organizations acquire external knowledge by accessing external knowledge repositories …. We argue that professional service firms (PSFs) grant access to non-localized knowledge repositories and thereby not only … facilitate external learning but also help to overcome localization. Focusing on patent law firms, we test our predictions using …

The aim of the paper is to highlight geographical localization of French prolific inventors. We construct a US patents … Paris and the Rhône-Alpes region. Then we study inventor mobility between regions for Rhône-Alpes and Paris inventors and … find a new set of relationships<np pagenum="394"/>. Econometric analysis of the mobility and productivity of the overall …