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Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research

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  • Barth, Mary E.
  • Gee, Kurt H.

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Glaeser and Lang (2024; GL) reviews the accounting literature on innovation, which has increased substantially in recent years. GL makes an important contribution to accounting research by bringing into the literature the implications of Romer's Nobel Prize winning endogenous growth theory and by explaining how accounting research addresses questions related to innovation. We contribute to accounting research by building on GL's foundation to suggest three main paths forward for future innovation research. First, focus on innovation's three defining attributes: novelty, nonrivalry, and partial excludability. Second, determine the needs of various users of information about a firm's innovation activities and how to meet those needs; we focus on the needs of investors. Third, address questions our discussion highlights as potentially important for future research on financial reporting and innovation, including the crucial question of an innovation's identifiability.

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  • Barth, Mary E. & Gee, Kurt H., 2024. "Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(2).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaecon:v:78:y:2024:i:2:s0165410124000636
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2024.101733
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