This study analyzes how promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO senior executives affect corporate innovation … alternative innovation measures, including patent generality and originality indices and stock market reactions to patent grants … innovation performance …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U …

Learning from the experiences of other innovators is a crucial aspect of the innovation process when several workers or …-ride on the new ideas generated by co-workers. This paper studies optimal incentive schemes for innovation and shows that when … workers can learn from each other's experience, incentives for innovation fundamentally differ from incentives for routine …

This paper provides highly significant evidence that golden parachutes spur innovation in concentrated … lead to higher levels of innovation quantity and quality through a risk-taking mechanism. The positive effects of … parachutes on innovation are more pronounced when ownership concentration increases for SOEs, as well as when ownership …

prone-to-innovation environments for the generation of radical innovation. By drawing on the CIS distinction between … incremental vs radical innovation, we disentangle the effect of industry specialization on the occurrence of radical innovations … innovation. Firms' internal knowledge bases do matter more for radical innovation to occur, rather than location in …

innovation. Empirical results indicate that an increase in antitakeover provisions is negatively related to number of patents and … number of citations to patents. Thus managers who are protected from takeover market perform worse on innovation. However …, the negative relation between antitakeover provisions and firm innovation holds only for low-tech firms. For high …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 - 2000 …). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the “economics of innovation” as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural change …