supports innovation activities, especially early in the life cycle of firms. …

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

Germany after the fall of the Iron Curtain. We find strong empirical support for the hump shape in the changes of employment …

innovative these firms actually are. This paper investigates firm failure, funding success, and innovation capacity using a hand …