There is growing interest in the role that corporate restructurings play in innovation. Although existing research has looked at the impacts of leveraged buyouts of companies on R&D spending and profits, few studies have looked at the effect that buyouts have on the output of R&D, and those...

Purpose: Lithium-ion batteries that are commonly used in electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles cannot be simply discarded at the end of vehicle application due to the materials of which they are composed. In addition the US Department of Energy has estimated that the cost per...