Inventor CEOs

One-in-five U.S. high-technology firms are led by CEOs with hands-on innovation experience as inventors. Firms led by “Inventor CEOs” are associated with higher quality innovation, especially when the CEO is a high-impact inventor. During an Inventor CEO's tenure, firms file a greater number of patents and more valuable patents in technology-classes where the CEO's hands-on experience lies. Utilizing plausibly exogenous CEO turnovers to address the matching of CEOs to firms suggests these effects are causal. The results can be explained by an Inventor CEO's superior ability to evaluate, select and execute innovative investment projects related to their own hands-on experience

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Islam, Emdad
Other Persons:	Zein, Jason (contributor)
Publisher:	[2019]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Führungskräfte \| Managers \| Erfindung \| Invention \| Innovation \| Patent \| Managervergütung \| Executive compensation \| Leistungsentgelt \| Performance pay

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (56 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 5, 2018 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3152200 [DOI]
Classification:	G32 - Financing Policy; Capital and Ownership Structure ; G34 - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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