Over the last few years technology has become a key element of competition in the hospital market. At the same time this market in the US has seen intense merger activity. In this study we analyze the role that technology can play in this consolidation wave by focusing on how it can affect a...

This article focuses on corporate spinouts as a strategy that can rejuvenate the inventive efforts of inventors with a long tenure in the same company. We rely on an unbalanced panel of 5,604 inventor-year observations to study a matched sample of 431 inventors employed by the Xerox Corporation...

We explore how R&D project characteristics condition the governance of an R&D project and its individual activities. Prior literature has sought to explain the factors - both at the industry and at the firm level - that influence the way in which firms partner for innovation. In this paper, by...