a discussion of sources of environmental innovation. Given that most innovation is concentrated in a few rich countries …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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 …

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

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

views within the energy innovation policy literature. In general, this literature has suggested that greatly increasing … rates of energy innovation requires creating significant demand for low carbon technologies, substantially increased federal … private sector investment in innovation. Each history also confirms the centrality of publicly funded research to the …

the elasticity of innovation with respect to the expected price of drugs should be at least as great as the elasticity of … innovation with respect to expected market size (disease incidence). I examine the cross-sectional relationship between … pharmaceutical innovation and market size among a set of diseases (different types of cancer) exhibiting substantial exogenous …