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 …

technology. A randomized controlled trial compares these theory-driven network targeting approaches to simpler strategies that … theory based targeting can out-perform traditional approaches to extension, and we identify methods to realize these gains at …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …

This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … innovation. The principal variable that explains diffusion of entry is the demonstration effect. The principal variable that …