# Innovation
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WANG, Qinyu Ryan
[ZHENG, Yanfeng](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zheng-yanfeng)
[Patent Regime and the Geography of Cumulative Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/09/patent-regime-and-geography-cumulative-innovation)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)
Cumulative innovation—building on existing ideas to create new innovations—is key to technological and economic development. Unsurprisingly, the process is geographically localized: innovations tend to be developed by innovators located nearer to their predecessors. Yet research has thus far failed to account for the strengthening of this effect in recent
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WANG, Qinyu Ryan
[ZHENG, Yanfeng](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zheng-yanfeng)
[How Patents Shape the Geography of Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/06/how-patents-shape-geography-innovation)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)
Cumulative innovation—building on existing ideas to create new innovations—is key to technological and economic development. Unsurprisingly, the process is geographically localized: innovations tend to be developed by innovators located nearer to their predecessors. Yet research has thus far failed to account for the strengthening of this effect in recent
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[Read Full Paper](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733323000938)
HUI, Pamsy P.
CHIU, Warren C. K.
PANG, Elvy
[COOMBES, John](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/coombes-john)
TSE, Doreen Y. P.
[Nurturing Creative and Moral Business Leaders](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/04/nurturing-creative-and-moral-business-leaders)
[Morality](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/morality)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Talent Development](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/talent-development)
[Leadership](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/leadership)
Creativity and morality are two key attributes that organizations demand of their employees, and stakeholders of organizations. Yet under certain circumstances, these attributes may inhibit each other. In a study with far-reaching implications for business, education, and society, John Coombes of HKUST and colleagues from PolyU explore ways of tailoring
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[LYU, Guodong](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/lyu-guodong)
TEO, Chung-Piaw
[Choose a Locker, Enhance Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/09/choose-locker-enhance-sustainability)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Service Operation Systems](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/service-operation-systems)
Using lockers for parcel delivery can significantly reduce congestion in city centers. This is among the major findings of research by HKUST’s Guodong Lyu and a colleague, focusing on a “smart nation” initiative recently proposed for implementation in Singapore. The researchers developed an innovative analytical method of determining the optimal network
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[KOH, Tat Koon](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/koh-tat-koon)
CHEUNG, Muller Y. M.
[For Businesses, a New Way to Improve Brainstorming Results](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/05/businesses-new-way-improve-brainstorming-results)
[Crowdsourcing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/crowdsourcing)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Ideation Contests](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/ideation-contests)
[Online Information](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/online-information)
Among the inputs that executives rely on to run competitive organizations, a particular type resists classification: ideas. Companies need a steady supply of ideas, and they often turn to external venues for help. Say, for instance, a company is developing an advertising campaign that needs art and text to convey a targeted message. If the company lacks the
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LI, Yixuan
SHAO, Yiduo
WANG, Mo
FANG, Yanran
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
LI, Chang
[How an Inclusive Organizational Climate Promotes Knowledge Management and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/05/how-inclusive-organizational-climate-promotes-knowledge-management-and)
[Organizational Studies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-studies)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Management Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/management-performance)
A more diverse workforce can provide an organization with a broader talent base and a wider range of knowledge and perspectives. Recent trends of increasing globalization, migration, and aging have enhanced workplace diversity in terms of age, gender, and region of origin to an unprecedented degree. Thus, argue HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and colleagues, it
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GAO, Pin
FAN, Xiaoshuai
HUANG, Yangguang
[CHEN, Ying-Ju](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-ying-ju)
[Allocating Resources to Competing Innovators](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/12/allocating-resources-competing-innovators)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[R&D](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/rd)
[Competition](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/competition)
[Venture Capital](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/venture-capital)
[Resource Allocation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/resource-allocation)
Innovation plays an essential role in economic growth. Every year, governments, private enterprises, and venture capitalists (VCs) invest billions of dollars and other resources in research and development (R&D) to foster innovation. Often, they are targeting the same group of consumers. This raises a crucial question for innovation investors. How should
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SAIDI, Farzad
ZALDOKAS , Alminas
[Firm Patents and Signalling Value in Loan Contracting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/firm-patents-and-signalling-value-loan-contracting)
[Patent](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/patent)
[Privacy Issues](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/privacy-issues)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)
[Credit](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/credit)
Economic partnerships and other transactions have some degree of information asymmetry between the contracting parties. As such, the information environment is vital when it comes to determining relationship quality and stability. In many markets, superior private information is seen as a competitive advantage when compared to publicly available information
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HUANG, Yangguang
[How to Spread Your Chips Among Competing Innovations?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/03/how-spread-your-chips-among-competing-innovations)
[Competition](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/competition)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Venture Capital](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/venture-capital)
[BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/biztalks)
[Resource Allocation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/resource-allocation)
[R&D](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/rd)
Many innovative products are designed to satisfy the demand of specific target consumers; thus, the innovators will inevitably compete with each other in the product market. We investigate how a profit-maximizing principal should properly allocate her limited resources to support the innovations of multiple potentially competing innovators.
We find that
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[LI, J. T.](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/li-j-t)
HUANG, Kenneth G
[Bridging the Information Gap](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/01/bridging-information-gap)
[Emerging Market](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/emerging-market)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Patent](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/patent)
[Knowledge Adoption](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/knowledge-adoption)
For Chinese firms, gaining patents for innovations may be a promising way to gain influence in the international arena, according to HKUST’s Jiatao Li and a co-researcher. Such patents act as a powerful signal of technological quality and market potential for U.S. firms who seek to introduce such innovations at home. This research offers novel insights into
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