Innovation is central to long-run economic growth. This chapter summarizes the state of the
literature on the economics of innovation, highlighting open policy questions. We first …

Innovative firms rely increasingly on academic science, yet they exploit only a small fraction
of all academic discoveries. Which discoveries in academia do firms build upon? We posit …

Prior research suggests that academic scientists who collaborate with firms may experience
lower publication rates in their collaborative lines of work because of industry's insistence on …

Names: Scholz, Tobias, author. Title: Big data in organizations and the role of human
resource management: a complex systems theory-based conceptualization/Tobias M …

Abstract Research Summary Research on industry evolution highlights the role of
knowledge‐building activities of startups and established firms in shaping knowledge …

The scientific community assigns credit or “priority” to individuals who publish an important
discovery first. We examine the impact of losing a priority race (colloquially known as getting …

Abstract Research Summary Whereas prior innovation and strategy literature studied how
attentional and search dynamics influence the creation of inventions, we examine how these …

Inventors cannot exploit new scientific discoveries if they do not pay attention to them.
However, allocating attention to science is difficult because the scientific literature is …

We analyze more than 70 million scientific articles to characterize the gender dynamics of
commercializing science. The double-digit gender gap we report is explained neither by the …

We show evidence of localized knowledge spillovers using a new database of US patent
interferences terminated between 1998 and 2014. Interferences resulted when two or more …