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 …

, fosters firm innovation. We find that firms that support more politicians, winning politicians, politicians on Congressional … employ a natural experiment to show a causal effect of political activism on innovation. We also show evidence of intra …

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 …

study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …

and innovation effort in firms. We test predictions derived from our framework using a sample of more than 7,000 firms … induce managers to decrease buffering effects promoting innovation effort; but 2) stronger NCGI employee protections magnify … increase commitment effects promoting innovation effort. Cross-country research on the relationship between firm slack and …

Background: Firms increasingly depend on external actors for the process of generating innovation. Interaction with …. Objectives: Although open innovation has received more attention, still less is known about its effect on organizational … innovation. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of various external knowledge sources on the willingness of …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …

positively related to innovation activity. More importantly, this relationship depends on the mode of innovation, where companies …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …