of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …

This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open … fact that the exact difficulties of innovation tasks may not be known in advance, so tasks that require high-skill labor …

-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …

commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance …

the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …

Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … effect on the rate of breakthrough innovation and the profitability of firms …