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Firm age and innovation
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Firm age and innovation

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jeongsik Lee
Industrial and corporate change, v 17(5), pp 1019-1047
01 Oct 2008

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Business Business & Economics Economics Management Social Sciences
We examine how firm age relates to innovtion quality, and how this relationship varies depending on the nature of technology. Using data on patents of COMPUSTAT firms, we find that firm age is negatively related to technical quality, and that this effect is greater in technologically active areas. The economic implication of this effect is substantial; each additional year reduces the impact of a 10 increase in R&D intensity on the firms market value by over 3%.

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