"Assessing key areas of Sino-U.S. technological competition such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, green tech and defense, the ability of both countries' industries and tech sectors to compete, and the likely consequences primacy in each area will have."

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...