manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …

We examine the causal effects of terrorism on inventor productivity and mobility. During the five-year window after … continue working for firms near the attacks exhibit a drastic productivity decline, those that relocate to faraway companies do …/11 attacks. Our findings provide novel insights about the impact of shocks that distort human capital productivity and promote …

challenges to the management of firms, but also to policy makers since innovation has a large share in economic growth and … technological leadership of countries. Karin Hoisl is concerned with innovation processes and the involved inventors. Her focus is … on the determinants of inventor productivity, the relationship between inventor mobility and inventor productivity, and …