This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …

entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …

We study the global innovation and diffusion of ideas by introducing trade into the model in Eaton and Kortum (1999 … intensity of innovation within countries over time and diffusion rates across countries. We find significant specialization … across the globe: some countries have high innovation rates, while other countries rely on diffusion. Although innovation is …

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …

Innovation depends on exporting and, in particular, on scale and competition in export markets. We develop a theory … featuring (1) quality-segmented markets, (2) step-by-step innovation that moves firms forward along the quality ladder, and (3 …) escape-the-competition motives for innovation. We derive four predictions about the impact on innovation of scale and …

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

from innovation. In this paper, we revisit that question using a nationally representative sample of firms over the period … of the economics of innovation. There are five main findings. First, while patenting firms are relatively uncommon in the … differences in the type of R&D or innovation produced by a firm. We also discuss the implications of these findings for innovation …