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...

Purpose - A city is a spatial carrier of innovation activities. Improving the level of urban innovation can play a significant supporting role in building an innovative country. China began to implement the innovative city pilot policy in 2008 and continued to expand the policy into more areas...

In contrast to the traditional view, scholars have recently argued that contemporary state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the 21 st century can be effective innovators. After an extensive literature review, we develop a hypothesis that the use of information and communication technology (ICT) has a...