Green innovation is an effective approach to break the constraints of resource availability and environment protection that the firms face. China has set up the political inspection team to fight against corruption and deepen reform of state-owned firms in recent years. From 2013 to 2015,...

This study finds a negative association between firm-level political risk (PRISK) and firm-level patents and citations in general. The PRISK extracted from different sectors also shows similar effects. This impact is more pronounced when a firm belongs to economically uncertain states,...

We conjecture that some individuals are increasingly overwhelmed by the myriad of new ideas proposed to them each year. As a result, even minor obstacles to understanding an innovation causes such innovation to not be adopted. To test this conjecture, we turn to ideas proposed in scientific...

In this study, we examine how the national intellectual property (IP) model cities awarded by the National Intellectual Property Administration affect firm innovation activities in China. The difference-in-difference regression with a matched sample indicates that the recognition of IP model...

This study examines firm-level political risk and its role in influencing corporate innovation. We analyze four dimensions of innovation: patent output, quality, radicalness, and efficiency, based on a sample of US-listed firms from 2001 to 2020. We find a negative effect on patent output and...