focus on acquiring new knowledge and exploring innovations can function as a catalyst for reducing the achievement gap. We …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

Poor productivity performance has been identified as a significant issue for New Zealand, and innovation is seen as a … key mechanism for improving productivity growth. Understanding the drivers of firm innovation therefore represents an … important step towards improving New Zealand’s economic performance. In this paper, we combine firm-level innovation data with …

whose innovation entails more complex knowledge, which is known to impede inter-firm knowledge spillovers, will increase … collaboration (as observed in patented innovation), and this effect is weaker for firms possessing more complex knowledge. These …Research has long recognized the importance of collaboration for innovation, but relatively little is known about the …

We identify firm innovation as a channel through which the treatment of employees affects firm value. Long …-term incentive theory supports positive effects of “good” employee treatment on innovation. Alternatively, entrenchment theory … suggests such treatment will lead to complacency and shirking, hence deterring innovation. These opposing views merit …

This paper investigates the impacts of CEOs’ research experiences on corporate innovation, and shows that the firms … managed by researcher CEOs have significantly higher investments in innovative activities, generate better innovation output … experiences on corporate innovation are causal. We also show that CEOs’ research experiences can mitigate agency problems, thereby …

The purpose of this research is to examine a driving force behind innovation - human capital - which we contend is … useful in identifying and exploiting opportunities in both goods and services contexts. Traditional predictors of innovation … theory, this research proposes that investment in employees is an innovation predictor that embraces the nuances of both …