“…Following prior studies, such as Chen, Sharma, Zhan, and Liu [13], Haider et al [44], Kieschnick and Moussawi [45], and Francis et al [46], we control a variety of board and firm characteristics that may affect innovation capability in our regressions. For firm characteristics, we include firm age (Age), firm ownership (Nature), research and development staff (Rdstaff ), asset-liability ratio (Alr), liquidity ratio (Al), and shareholding ratio of the largest shareholder (Concen).…”