Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

origin and diffusion of technological innovation across economies. This study suggests that institutional change, based on a … of technological innovation, can propose best practices directed to support a higher economic freedom in society … technological innovation to govern the development of economies in the presence of globalization and geographical expansion in world …

competition. Innovation competition as a trial and error-process can be analyzed as an evolutionary process of variation and … selection of new problem solutions, which allows to apply arguments and models of evolutionary innovation economics. Both … on innovation. Since there might be also advantages of a larger firm size, a trade off might occur leading to the notion …

The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …

We identify strong cross-border institutions as a driver for the globalization of in-novation. Using 67 million patents … from over 100 patent offices, we introduce novel measures of innovation diffusion and collaboration. Exploiting staggered … result in techno-logical convergence. The effects are particularly strong for process innovation, and for countries that are …

to innovation, as well as in more competitive industries. This pattern is also stronger for high-tech industries, for …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …