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In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors Tubiana, Matteo Miguélez, Ernest Moreno Serrano, Rosina Gestió del coneixement Aprenentatge Productivitat Knowledge management Learning Productivity Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source ideas while interacting with peers at different levels and intensities. With a dataset of disambiguated inventors from 1980 to 2010 in European metropolitan areas, we assess the influence of their interactions with co-workers, organizations' colleagues, and geographically co-located peers on their productivity. By adding many fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity, we uncover the importance of metropolitan areas knowledge for inventors' productivity, with firms and co-workers' network knowledge being less relevant. When the complexity and quality of knowledge are accounted for, the picture changes: proximate, social interactions become central. 2022-02-01T08:49:04Z 2025-01-31T06:10:09Z 2022-01 2022-02-01T08:49:04Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104388 Research Policy, 2022, vol. 51 (1), num. 104388, p. 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104388 cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Elsevier Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)