How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

questions about the pro-cyclicality of VC and its implications for innovation, especially in light of the common narrative that … VC is relatively insulated from public markets. We find that the implications for innovation are not benign: innovation … discussion on the nature of innovation across business cycles …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …

The paper seeks to understand the impact of the patent system on innovation by examining shifts in the strength of …

-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as …