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The purpose of this dissertation is to study which inventors benefit from working in teams, taking
into consideration their level of specialization and their past experience. To answer the research
question, it was analyzed inventors’ data collected from EPO-PastSat database from 1979 until
1999. The results show that, consistent to previous research, teams produce better inventions
than lone inventors. Moreover, specialist inventors benefit from collaboration more than
generalists, but only if the team have a significant number of coinventors. Lastly, the positive
impact on invention quality is more relevant for experienced inventors.
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Invention Teams Specialist inventors Experienced inventors