of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open … fact that the exact difficulties of innovation tasks may not be known in advance, so tasks that require high-skill labor …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …