Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

for around 17% of the total increase in the top 1% income share between 1975 and 2010. Yet, innovation does not appear to … increase other measures of inequality which do not focus on top incomes. Next, we show that the positive effects of innovation … vindicate the Schumpeterian view whereby the rise in top income shares is partly related to innovation-led growth, where …