We study how competition between two downstream firms affects an upstream innovator's innovation strategy, which … includes selecting how much innovation to produce and whether to license this innovation to one (targeted licensing) or both … upstream innovation: at low levels of competition, market-wide licensing is optimal and competition reduces innovation, while …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

We discuss prospects for innovation in consumer payment instruments. We discuss recent research into consumer payments …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …