this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …

developers reallocate innovation efforts to unaffected apps and that affected markets experience less entry post-acquisition. …

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …

examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential … and the innovation performance. We examine the telecommunications equipment industry over the period 1988-2002 using a … newly constructed data set with firm-level data describing M&A and innovation activity as well as financial characteristics …

M&A and Innovation a major means of today's competitive strategy development, this paper examines the innovation … determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance … firm-level data on M&A and innovation activity as well as financial characteristics. By implementing a counterfactual …

This is an ex-post evaluation of how innovation changed following mergers and subsequent policy interventions, using an …, in 2011/12. Unlike most previous empirical papers in the merger-innovation literature, it drills down to the firm level … to explore heterogeneity in the innovation response to the merger. It adopts a holistic view of innovation, employing …