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 …

locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as …

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

of innovation, our results suggest that innovation in the tech sector has been more rapid than the rate that would be … of innovation in high-tech sectors has been more rapid than indicated by official statistics, then it is perhaps even …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …