technologies during the early stages of which a discovery is followed by a period of rapid economic growth and innovation, and the …

Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms … with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate productivity growth requires that firms with the best prospects for …

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …

more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …

Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a … manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital … -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a higher growth of hours worked and total factor productivity, and firms with …

experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in … CEOs on future innovation: firms whose CEO transitions to be an inventor experience positive abnormal stock returns …