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Innovation Activities and the Incentives for Vertical Acquisitions and Integration
"... ABSTRACT We examine the incentives for firms to vertically integrate through acquisitions and production. We develop a new firm-specific measure of vertical relatedness and integration using 10-K product text. We find that firms in high R&D industries are less likely to become targets in vertic ..."
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to transfer control rights to the party commercializing the patents. 6 We also consider the role of supply chain stability and maturity. 4 ex post effects Our findings contribute to a large literature examining the determinants of vertical integration (see 9 Specifically, they show a relative decline in non