This paper examines how bilateral political tensions between the U.S. and other countries impact the innovation of US …, reducing innovation outputs. Teams including inventors in politically divided countries generate fewer and less impactful … domestic innovation within US multinationals, leading to declines in firm-wide inventive performance …

How global are the gains from innovation? When firms operate production plants in multiple countries, technological …-2008. Our estimates indicate that innovation increases performance at firm locations beyond the innovating site: the median U … operations understate multinationals' gain from innovation, and revealing a spatial disconnect between the costs and potential …