Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a … industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and … innovation, and that their commercial efforts were enhanced by association with family firms. Their formerly invisible …

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …