How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

that as firms gain market share, they increasingly rely on nonproductive strategies but reduce their productive, innovation …

technological lead spawn more successful spinouts. Building on these observations, I build a structural model of innovation and firm … dynamics, where firm heterogeneity arises from endogenous decisions of innovation workers to become entrepreneurs and create … affecting employee entrepreneurship for aggregate innovation and growth. …