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 …

This paper examines the relationship between CEOs’ individualistic cultural background and corporate innovation among … born in frontier counties with a higher level of individualistic culture promote innovation performance. Firms led by such … CEOs increase both quantity and quality of innovation outputs, measured by the number of patents, citation-weighted patents …

analysis to discover the specific intangible drivers of innovation performance for developed and developing countries. The … relationship with product innovations. The influence of human capital on innovation performance was justified using fixed effect …

This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and the market value of innovation using … between competition and the value of innovation. Furthermore, we show that there is an "asymmetric" causal effect of … intensifying product market competition on the market value of innovation, using a quasi-natural experiment based on tariff …

impediment to corporate innovation. By contrast, without technological spillovers, innovation has the effect of stealing market … share from rivals; in that case, more common ownership reduces innovation. Empirically, the association between common … ownership and innovation inputs and outputs decreases with product market proximity and increases with technology proximity. The …

disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …