entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …

from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity and quality of inventive activity and shift … to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters …

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …