We find that social capital in U.S. counties, as captured by strength of social norms and density of social networks, is positively associated with innovation of firms headquartered in the county, as captured by patents and citations. This relation is robust in fixed-effect regressions,...

In this paper, we examine the impact of female Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) on corporate innovation. We find that firms with female CTOs are more innovative (as captured by both patent counts and patent citations) than firms with male CTOs. This effect is more pronounced for firms with a...

Using a sample of patents granted to U.S. firms over the period 1980-2008, we find that firms' organization capital has a positive impact on innovation. Specifically, we find that firms with more organization capital generate greater number of patents and receive more citations on their patents....