When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits' prior inventions? Our estimates suggest they do, quite significantly in fact, by approximately 202%...

und Problemstellung -- Begriffliche Grundlagen -- Theoretische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Methodische Grundlagen und empirische Ergebnisse -- Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis -- Zusammenfassung.