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Absorbing knowledge from supply-chain, industry and science: The distinct moderating role of formal liaison devices on new product development and novelty Cruz González, Jorge López Sáez, Pedro Navas López, José Emilio External search Knowledge integration Product innovation Novelty Absorptive capacity Empresas Marketing 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas 5311.05 Marketing (Comercialización) Building on open innovation literature and recent developments within absorptive capacity research, this paper addresses if the use of formal liaison devices by firms differently influences the effects of external knowledge acquisition from suppliers, customers, competitors and universities on new product development and novelty of new products. The results of a survey of 248 Spanish industrial high-tech firms show that whereas the use of these mechanisms positively moderates the relationship between knowledge acquisition from suppliers and competitors and new product development, they negatively moderate the effect of knowledge acquisition from universities and have no effect on knowledge acquired from customers. On the other hand, the use of these devices negatively moderates the relationship between knowledge acquisition from suppliers and novelty of new products, and has no effect on the knowledge acquired from customers, competitors and universities. Moreover, knowledge acquisition from universities has a direct negative effect on novelty. Contribution of these findings to open innovation and absorptive capacity research is discussed. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) Ministerio de Educación Programa de Ayudas para Estancias Breves del Programa de Formación de Profesorado Universitario 2011 Depto. de Organización de Empresas Fac. de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales TRUE pub 2023-06-18T06:03:21Z 2023-06-18T06:03:21Z 2015-03-18 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23818 0019-850 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.02.036 eng ECO2009-12405 ECO2012-38190 AP2008-00420 EDU/2394/2011 restricted access application/pdf Elsevier Inc.