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 …

entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …

divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative evidence showing that how innovation and design work was done changed … fundamentally during the Industrial Revolution. This change was characterized by the professionalization of innovation and design …

economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes … and commercialization data, we examine racial and gender disparities at each stage of the innovation process …