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by dgacmu 461 days ago
It's literally studied as "learning" in the management science literature.

For example: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2015.235...

> We find that productivity improves when multiple generations of the firm’s primary product family are produced concurrently, reflecting the firm’s ability to augment and transfer knowledge from older to newer product generations.