influence of outsiders is offset by the pressure to focus on innovation strategies. …

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 …

One-in-five U.S. high-technology firms are led by CEOs with hands-on innovation experience as inventors. Firms led by … “Inventor CEOs” are associated with higher quality innovation, especially when the CEO is a high-impact inventor. During an …

innovation inputs and outputs. We show that top management quality is an important determinant of corporate innovation, with … different individual aspects of management quality affecting innovation in younger and older firms differently. Further, firms … with higher top management quality engage in more risky (“explorative”) innovation strategies. Finally, hiring more and …

Corporate innovation plays a crucial role in maintaining competitiveness and enhancing firm value. However, despite … being the world's leading manufacturing nation, the role of managerial ownership in fostering innovation within the Chinese … ownership on corporate innovation using data on patent activities from Chinese listed manufacturing firms covering the period …

innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …

sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …