This study explores how breakthrough inventions shape the patterns of knowledge production. Drawing on the literature on technology competition and inventive search, we argue that a breakthrough invention first increases the intensity of knowledge production as inventors seek to establish a...

This study examines whether and how firms create value by making their innovations free and non-proprietary open source technologies, a possibility that runs counter to the central tenet in strategy regarding the control of private knowledge as a key to profiting from innovation. In exploring...

We explore the importance attached to the family name when couples can decide whether children will have the surname of the mother, uxorilocal marriages, or of the father, virilocal marriages. Using the 2005 China Inter-census Population Survey, we match the surnames of parents with those of...