Rosenkopf, Lori; Almeida, Paul - In: Management Science 49 (2003) 6, pp. 751-766
---both geographically and technologically---in their search for new knowledge. But distant contexts may offer ideas and insights that can be … extremely useful to innovation through knowledge recombination. So how can firms reach beyond their existing contexts in their … search for new knowledge? In this paper, we suggest that two mechanisms---alliances and the mobility of inventors---can serve …