-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation … activities, i.e., foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Incidences of innovation for ten innovation activities are … computed. The incidence of innovation was used to examine the extent to which different global engagement groups participate in …