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Влияние пандемии коронавируса на инновационную активность ИТ компаний в США
The goal of the research is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on such innovative activity indicators as R&D spending and the number of international patents of American IT companies. The sample includes 130 US companies from 2010 to 2021. The data were analyzed using models with fixed individual effects and robust errors, Tobit and Heckman models. According to the results obtained R&D/Sales ratio did not change during the pandemic. However, R&D expenditures increased during the pandemic for highly innovative firms and companies from the technology equipment sector increased analogue capitalized R&D. Also, firms that have international patents before the pandemic granted more patents for registration during the pandemic. A one-year lag was found between innovations’ input in the form of R&D investment and innovations’ output in the form of international patents. Thus, based on the results of the study, we concluded that COVID-19 has a positive impact only on highly innovative companies in the United States.