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This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also investigates whether companies in the PRD tend to innovate in a similar way as companies in the Asian Newly Industrialised Economies (NIEs) did decades ago. The author concludes that easier access to different knowledge sources for companies in the PRD to carry out different innovation outcomes enables them to climb the industrial upgrading ladder faster.