Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as …

,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005-2009, but no … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects …

with new data on patent citations to scientific publications by corporations. Using data on 4,736 firms for the period 1980 …

We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in … patent)--and their hits tend to generate more follow-on patents assigned to other firms when compared to hits generated by …

strategic disclosure of patent acquisitions and the conditions under which firms trade the benefits of competitor deterrence … recording dates for US patents purchased by publicly traded corporations, we predict and find earlier disclosure of patent …. Additional analyses reveal that (a) regulatory changes reducing the value of keeping acquisitions of patent applications secret …

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …