Prior literature has established that international collaboration on R&D is an important means for generating new and impactful ideas through the cross-border integration of knowledge. We show that cross-country collaboration improves not just the resulting inventions, but also has a long-term...

We use patent citation data to examine knowledge flows between foreign MNCs and host country organizations in 30 countries. We find not just significant knowledge inflows from foreign MNCs to host country organizations, but also significant outflows back from the host country to foreign MNCs. In...