operations understate multinationals' gain from innovation, and revealing a spatial disconnect between the costs and potential … gains of policies that encourage multinationals' U.S. innovation …How global are the gains from innovation? When firms operate production plants in multiple countries, technological …

traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic … distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local knowledge sources in given technological areas are inadequate. This … paper argues that to overcome these challenges, multinationals utilize home country inventors on foreign affiliate inventor …

The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others … advantage and home market effects (HME) that arise from the interaction between increasing returns to innovation and … of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …

women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … improvements in consumer final goods, changes in designs, and other forms of technological creativity. The results indicate that …'s creativity in terms of a "gender difference" rather than a "gender gap" might yield useful analytical insights. A general …

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …

paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young … art world. A century ago, a great painter could influence nearly all advanced artists, but today it is virtually …