Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

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 …

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …

three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with … of US multinational R&D has reinforced the technological leadership of US-based firms in the information technology …