linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … require greater risk-taking than more incremental approaches. To understand how managers respond to uncertainty when making … projects. The results suggest that the risk preferences of managers in charge of research investments may have an oversized …

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 …

We study relational contracts among managers using unique data that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian … ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which … these facts imply gains from sharing workers. We show that managers respond to shocks by lending and borrowing workers in a …

We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment features exogenous link … current account. This diffusion is a combination of diffusion of innovation and simple imitation. At the time of our …

-tier universities in the national innovation system as producers of new, high-quality knowledge …

research on industrial innovation. Moreover, during this period we find that firms with large research operations in both …