The effects of diversified technology and country knowledge on the impact of technological innovation

This study examines diversified knowledge and how it affects the impact of technological innovation. Specifically, we examine the effect of diversified technology knowledge—measured by technologies that underlie patents, and the effect of diversified country knowledge—measured by collaboration with inventors from other countries. Using Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Modeling, we analyze 97,118 patents in the computers and communications...