Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich Humankapital und Innovation erstellt und im Dezember 2010 abgeschlossen …

We investigate how political ideology affects corporate innovation by using the expansion of Sinclair Broadcasting, the … largest conservative media network in the U.S., as a plausible shock to the local ideology. We find that innovation quantity … economic value of innovation) fall significantly upon the Sinclair entry to a local TV market. The effect is driven by the …

knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a …