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 …

analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …

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

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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 …

. The preceding results hold when Northern innovation is endogenously determined; in addition, the rate of innovation …

questions. The economy consists of many industries and firms engaged in cumulative (step-by-step) innovation. IPR policy … same innovation(s) themselves or by making some pre-specified payments to the technological leaders. We prove the existence …