This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with … innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns … under conservative assumptions, innovation efforts produce social benefits that are many multiples of the investment costs …

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 …

burden mechanism suggests that the nature of innovation is changing, with negative implications for long-run economic growth …

"In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing … socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of … Business Innovation Research program to the National Science Foundation. This book surveys key dimensions of innovation policy …

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 …

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