Abstract
R&D teams whose inventors hold different technological knowledge possess a greater variety of perspectives and ideas which increases teams’ potential to create higher quality inventions. However, effectively sharing and integrating technologically distinct know-how is difficult. This study argues the knowledge distance between R&D team inventors has an inverted-U relationship with the quality of teams’ inventions. Further, because they facilitate the integration of inventors’ distant knowledge, three patterns of team members’ prior collaborations condition the effect of team member knowledge distance on invention quality: density, centralization, and subgrouping. An analysis of 32,612 nanotechnology R&D teams provides support for the hypotheses, and reveals a duality in the moderating effects associated with each of the patterns of prior collaborations.
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