This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

platforms for pet-sitting services. We exploit variation in pre-merger market shares and a difference-in-differences approach to …

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …

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 …

This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two … decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be … Salinger (2005, 2008), we develop a simple model of an advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …