In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors …

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 …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …