consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways …: exporting provides a wider market to sell products, while innovation provides new and better products to supply those markets … and/or more efficient ways to reduce costs. The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

not as well received on the stock market. -- Distance to frontier ; Strategy ; Market value ; Innovation ; Firm Growth …

group of relevant innovators. -- Innovation ; patent data ; solar technologies ; climate change …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power …

scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

In previous work with Mark Lemley I have discussed the critical role played by the courts in fitting patent law to the … ongoing needs of innovation. Careful scrutiny of the recently enacted America Invents Act (AIA), which legislatively reforms … American patent law, underscores the need for robust judicial involvement in fostering a healthy patent system. In many …

from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … intellectual property and in existing products are associated with decreased U.S. firm innovation …