potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment …

that venture capital investments stimulate innovation (quot;VC-first hypothesisquot;). This interpretation is, however, one …-sided because there may be a reverse causality that innovations induce venture capital investments (quot;innovation … causality issue of venture capital investments and innovation in the US manufacturing industry using both total factor …