Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and … innovation. It features the joint selection of firms into innovation and international market participation (in our model, we … for innovation …

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity and quality of inventive activity and shift … to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters …