questions about the pro-cyclicality of VC and its implications for innovation, especially in light of the common narrative that … VC is relatively insulated from public markets. We find that the implications for innovation are not benign: innovation … discussion on the nature of innovation across business cycles …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …

failure tolerance and a sharp guillotine helps explain when and where radical innovation occurs …