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T1 The role of political ties and political uncertainty in corporate innovation
A1 Díaz Díaz, Nieves Lidia
A1 López Iturriaga, Félix Javier
A1 Santana Martín, Domingo Javier
K1 Corporate innovation
K1 Innovación corporativa
AB We examine the relationship between firms' political connections and corporate innovation in a European context. We also consider the moderating effect of political connections on the relationship between political uncertainty and firms' innovation. We use two different metrics of innovation: R&D (an input measure), and patent counts (an output measure). We find that firms with former politicians on their board of directors invest less in R&D than their counterpart firms. However, the presence of this type of director on the board is positively associated with the number of a firm's patent applications. It seems that, although political ties reduce the amount of resources devoted to R&D activities, they increase the effectiveness of intellectual rights protection. Results also show that political uncertainty decreases R&D investment but exacerbates the need for legal protection of innovation through patents. According to our results, political connections attenuate the effect of political uncertainty on firm innovation such that the negative (positive) effect of uncertainty on R&D intensity (patents) weakens when the firm is politically connected.
PB Elsevier
SN 0024-6301
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/47929
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/47929
LA eng
NO Long Range Planning, 2021, In Press, 102111
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-may-2024