a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

that as firms gain market share, they increasingly rely on nonproductive strategies but reduce their productive, innovation …

reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …

Do higher wages lead to more automation innovation? To answer this question, we first use the frequency of certain … keywords in patent text to create a new measure of automation innovation in machinery. We show that our measure is correlated …-level panel analysis, we find that an increase in low-skill wages leads to more automation innovation with an elasticity between 2 …

We study the relationship between patents and actual product innovation in the market, and how this relationship varies … consumer goods sector. We find that patent filings are positively associated with subsequent product innovation by firms, but … at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …