For some decades, European Union innovation policies have been promoting technological cooperation and encouraging the share of knowledge between member States. From this perspective, large attention has been specifically directed to interregional collaborations as a potential solution to reduce...

Purpose: We address the following research questions: (1) Is the innovation trajectory of the acquirer affected by previous acquisitions? (2) In which direction knowledge recombination from the acquisition is pushed further? (3) Is the technological acquisition more a means for knowledge...