, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy …Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …

innovation that illustrates an endogenous process of internal competition. This often political and contentious process can have …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

performance to examine the influences on reputation for technological innovation. Using patent, financial and consumer data our …Firms strategically promote, foster and pursue a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, present research did not … (citation intensity) is linked to reputation for technological innovation. Counter-intuitively, our results provide evidence …

Did the Covid-19 pandemic have an impact on innovation? Past economic disruptions, anecdotal evidence, and the previous … literature suggest a decline with substantial differences between industries. We leverage USPTO patent application data to … keyword search of the patent application fulltexts; indirect Covid-19 relevance is derived from past CPC subclass to subclass …

Although patent data has been utilized in previous studies, none focus explicitly on the real difference between … advanced and developing countries in the area of technological capabilities. We propose that patent data can capture three …, the number of the sectors of patent registration can also represent technological capabilities. Third, the number of …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …