Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …

the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …

knowledge is an input into internal invention, and thus, more valuable to firms with inventive capability. Using a simple model … of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … external knowledge as well as the supply of external inventions. In an advance over the literature, we treat firm inventive …

Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … effect on the rate of breakthrough innovation and the profitability of firms …

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …

detailed information on innovation activities and other company characteristics. We analyse the role of venture finance in … influencing innovation strategies. We find that venture capitalists push portfolio companies towards building absorptive capacity … shaping companies' innovation strategies …