TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Buddelmeyer, Hielke
AU  - Jensen, Paul H.
AU  - Webster, Elizabeth
        TI  - Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival
        PY  - 2006/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2386
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2386
        AB  - While many firms compete through the development of new technologies and products, it is well known that new-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies consistently find a negative association between innovative activity and firm death. We argue that this may occur because authors fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290,000 Australian companies, we estimate a piecewise-constant exponential hazard rate model to examine the relationship between innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital lowers it.
        KW  - innovation
KW  - firm survival
        ER  -