The Risks of Innovation : Are Innovating Firms Less Likely to Die?

While innovation matters for competitiveness, it may expose firms to survival risks. Using plant-product data for Chile and discrete-time hazard models, we show that innovating plants have a lower hazard of exit. However, risk has a strong impact on the innovation-exit relationship: only innovators...

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Main Authors: Fernandes, Ana M., Paunov, Caroline
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23943