This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms' and industries'
innovative activity and performance, highlighting the questions addressed, the approaches …

This review reorganizes and reconceptualizes extant research on patent strategy, which has
emerged from diverse roots in economics, law, and management. Accordingly, it is …

Innovation activities create substantial firm value, but they are difficult to manage owing to
agency risk, which is commonly thought to result in shirking, and hence underinvestment in …

abstract Research Summary Researchers increasingly use unstructured text data to
construct quantitative variables for analysis. This goal has traditionally been achieved using …

One novel implication of the open innovation paradigm is that inflows and outflows of
knowledge are complementary. We argue that engaging simultaneously in buying and …

We investigate whether patents on human genes have affected follow-on scientific research
and product development. Using administrative data on successful and unsuccessful patent …

We provide evidence on the value of patents to startups by leveraging the quasi‐random
assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using …

Uncertainty is central to entrepreneurship; however robust and generalizable findings that
explain the conditions in which uncertainty may impede [or promote] entrepreneurial action …

We revisit the “paradox of openness” in the literature which consists of two conflicting views
on the link between patenting and open innovation—the spillover prevention and the …

This article surveys some of the recent literature on technology markets, and summarizes its
main issues and insights. We structure our analysis in three parts: the supply and demand of …