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We examine how technological overlap and alliance experience – widely recognized antecedents of external knowledge utilization – influence the extent of knowledge acquisition and complementary specialization in alliances.
Our results also suggest that the likelihood of an alliance to simultaneously exhibit knowledge acquisition and complementary specialization improves as partnering firms' technological overlap and alliance experience increase.
The measures also enable researchers to assess the technological overlap, similarity, and proximity of the technological footprints of two or more firms.
Our analyses of 841 two-partner technology alliances within the ICT industry indicate that alliances between firms with moderate-to-high degrees of technological overlap favor high levels of knowledge acquisition across partnering firms while alliances among firms sharing either low or high levels of technological overlap are well-suited for complementary specialization.
Further we analyse the network resulting from R&D cooperations and explain – by means of network regression techniques – that the job mobility of scientists and the technological overlap between the actors, rather than past cooperations, can best predict the resulting structure.
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