policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …

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 …

divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short …- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work … remotely, plays a central role in determining firms' employment plans during the health crisis; ii) investment flexibility …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … innovation. The principal variable that explains diffusion of entry is the demonstration effect. The principal variable that …

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …