central government promotes corporate innovation by improving innovation efficiency, while the local government inhibits … innovation by reducing both innovation inputs and efficiency. We also find that the effect is even larger on high-tech firms and …This paper examines whether political connection heterogeneity plays a role in corporate innovation in a sample of all …

Research on sustainability and innovation-driven economic growth has exposed a lack of sufficient knowledge in the … governance literature about the appropriate extent of government involvement. This paper focuses on the governance of innovation … the concept of intermediation in the innovation process. The paper employs the Triple Helix model, which describes …

This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … activism on innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps … reduce policy uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that …