Technological innovation, knowledge diffusion and employee entrepreneurship and mobility are closely related phenomena. Multiple literature streams in strategy, entrepreneurship and technology management focus on explaining them. However, relatively little is known about the micro-level...

The strategic management of knowledge spillovers to employee ventures may provide firms with knowledge spill-ins, or the potential to learn from the ventures they have spun out. However, the mechanisms underlying knowledge spill-ins and their importance for external learning in uncertain...

This article focuses on corporate spinouts as a strategy that can rejuvenate the inventive efforts of inventors with a long tenure in the same company. We rely on an unbalanced panel of 5,604 inventor-year observations to study a matched sample of 431 inventors employed by the Xerox Corporation...