Did the Covid-19 pandemic have an impact on innovation? Past economic disruptions, anecdotal evidence, and the previous … literature suggest a decline with substantial differences between industries. We leverage USPTO patent application data to … keyword search of the patent application fulltexts; indirect Covid-19 relevance is derived from past CPC subclass to subclass …

analysis, the slowdown in innovation activity has a clear temporal connection with the later slowdown in productivity in the …

Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

How analyst coverage may affect corporate innovation remains unclear. We suggest that when the manager is myopic due to … pressure from financial analysts and decides to reduce innovation, the firm should retain better innovation projects and forego … positively correlated with patent value. We perform a difference-in-differences analysis and confirm our previous findings …

This paper examines how firms’ R&D disclosures are associated with collaborative innovation, measured by co … have more innovation) only if the competitors have co-patenting partners. Lastly, we investigate alternative mechanisms (i …

addressed in its recently released article titled, "Patent or Perish - Why your innovation can be your competitor's free lunch … or working around the innovation that the filer seeks to protect. This is the reason why patent drafting work should be … like to eliminate from its primary markets, but it does not have the adequate patent protection to do so. In a similar vein …

. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …

ownership on corporate innovation using data on patent activities from Chinese listed manufacturing firms covering the period …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 …

This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …

by firms subsequently to production operations. We then use the model to investigate how distribution shapes innovation … implications for innovation. The per-unit cost implies that factory-specific productivity improvements cannot sustain steady …