Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …

The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …