Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

nuanced approach to secrecy in open innovation, drawing from Philosophy and Sociology. We have conducted a two-year research … program in the defense industry, collecting data on the practices of concealment in open innovation activities. We found that … focal actors utilize distinct cognitive techniques to decontextualize knowledge in the course of open innovation projects in …

's innovation output is an open question. In this study we investigate how a firm's accumulated related and unrelated manufacturing …' innovation output we observe their portfolios of patented manufacturing inventions, which we qualitatively evaluate over time … dimension of innovation while hurting another, and helps to reconcile conflicting conceptual arguments that have been presented …

Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with … unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets and firms, life cycles, and other effects. Corporate innovation in younger … as a group – inventors interacting with non-inventors – produce more innovation for firms through the labor supply …

Online crowdfunding is a popular new tool for raising capital to commercialize product innovation. Product innovation …