Competition, Technology Licensing-in, and Innovation

The authors express appreciation to Editor Mary Tripsas and the three anonymous reviewers for their exceptional guidance and very generous feedback. The authors also thank Gautam Ahuja, Gary Dushnitsky, Anindya Ghosh, Marco Giarratana, Amol Joshi, Rahul Kapoor, Samina Karim, Riitta Katila, Christos Kolympiris, Keld Laursen, Massimo Maoret, Jeroen Neckebrouck, Atul Nerkar, Joanne Oxley, Toke Reichstein, Dimo Ringov, Thomas Roende, Jennifer Tae, Giovanni Valentini, Jan van den Ende, Todd Zenger, and Chris Zott for useful comments and suggestions. The paper benefited from conference presentations at the Capabilities, Innovation and Search session of the 2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois; the Open Innovation Conversation session of the 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Conference of the Social Network Analysis Research Center at Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano.