Many firms tout their commitment to diversity, sometimes appointing racial minorities to their board of directors. We … find that firms with more minority directors are associated with greater innovation output. Using patent …-inventor information, we uncover an important yet previously unaccounted-for channel by linking board diversity to inventor diversity. In …

found for search breadth and innovation in this review, search diversity indicates a curvilinear pattern but with a steeper … in respect to innovation is built up by initially increasing diversity in search up to the downturn point and then …This study gives a new identity to a knowledge search mode named search diversity and investigates how it is more …