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Commonly available and reported statistics focus on total R&D spending. Even the more recent literature that focuses on the value of intangible assets like knowledge only focuses on the value of R&D expenditure. Based on our reading of the literature and conversations with managers, we came around to a conjecture that the mix matters. Our survey results indeed support our conjecture. We found to our surprise that firms having a substantial proportion of internal technologies tended to have higher number of product market opportunities. 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