to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …

manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R …

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 …

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 …

detailed information on innovation activities and other company characteristics. We analyse the role of venture finance in … influencing innovation strategies. We find that venture capitalists push portfolio companies towards building absorptive capacity … shaping companies' innovation strategies …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

In this article we develop a model to analyze patent-protected R&D investment projects when there is (imperfect …) competition in the development and marketing of the resulting product. The competitive interactions that occur substantially … these interactions. Implementation of the model shows that competition in R&D, in general, not only increases production and …

specifications of a rival's patent application. In contrast, in the U.S. the only way a firm learns about a rival's innovation is … Japanese patent systems. Under the Japanese system it is possible for a firm to apply for a patent knowing the exact … upon the actual granting of the rival's patent. We argue that this difference enables Japanese firms to coordinate their R …

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … incentives motivating their participation in" technology transfer. In Japan, the legal and institutional context implies that …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

Patent pools allow a group of firms to combine their patents as if they were a single firm. Theoretical models predict … that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …