Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with … unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets and firms, life cycles, and other effects. Corporate innovation in younger … as a group – inventors interacting with non-inventors – produce more innovation for firms through the labor supply …

The growing importance of computer-related software patents awarded in the United States and around the world is a … country seek patent protection from another country is of concern to both organizations and researchers. To better understand … the strategic rationale motivating non-US firms to seek software patents in the US, an exploratory multi-case study …