This study examines whether staged project management is beneficial or harmful for making product innovations. Using a unique firm urvey for Japan, we find that firms that employed staged project management had a higher likelihood of introducing new products to the market. Additional estimations...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Survey design and summary statistics -- Chapter 3. Innovation output -- Chapter 4. R&D organizational structure -- Chapter 5. Staged R&D project management -- Chapter 6. Incentive schemes -- Chapter 7. Risk preference, time preference, and corporate culture...

We quantitatively examine the factors which account for differences in innovation output depending on the mode of international activities, employing the innovation accounting framework proposed by Mairesse and Mohnen [2001. <italic>To be or not to be innovative: An exercise in measurement</italic>. NBER Working...