Technology is a complex system formed by different elements given by incremental and radical innovations to satisfy needs, achieve goals and/or solve problems of adopters to take advantage of important opportunities or to cope with consequential environmental threats. This study suggests...

Insurers are well versed in the litany of challenging conditions facing the sector. These challenges are economic, political, regulatory, legal, social, and technological. As a result of those pressures, the industry is experiencing increasing competition, muted growth, and an excess of capital....

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that participate in network platforms can effectively overcome resource bottlenecks and reduce the impact of the coronavirus pandemic of 2019. However, the reasons for this phenomenon remain unclear. To further investigate this issue, we selected 310...

Millions of consumers around the world annually spend tens of billions of dollars developing household sector (HHS) innovations. However, the diffusion of these innovations is below the social optimum. Policies to increase diffusion have made a limited impact. This has been partly attributed to...

The fundamental problem in the field of technology studies is how technology evolves and sustains economic change in human society. This study confronts the problem here by proposing the theory of technological host-parasites coevolution, an approach that may be useful for bringing a new...

The US Congress introduced the Patent Pilot Program (PPP) in 2011, which allowed judges with expertise (as opposed to randomly selected judges) to preside over more patent cases to facilitate efficient ruling. We find firms in counties subject to the PPP increased patent-based innovation by...

Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, we know little about the interplay between the activities of academia driven intermediaries and their publicly financed counterparts. Building upon a combination...

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...

Empirical findings across many nations show that exporters have superior productivity compared to non-exporters and that this relationship is driven by productive firms becoming exporters. The conclusion drawn from these studies is that there is little learning from exporting. We, however,...

Using data on birthplaces of 2,065 CEOs and a local measure of cultural individualism based on the westward expansion in American history, I find a positive relation between CEO cultural individualism and corporate innovation. Firms with individualistic CEOs file more patents and receive more...