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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...
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Greasing the Wheels of Entrepreneurship? The Impact of Regulations and Corruption on Firm Entry
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - CESifo - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181356
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Entrepreneurial Innovations in Network Industries
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tag, Joacim - NET Institute - 2008
In this paper, we study entrepreneurial innovations in an industry characterized by network effects. We show that the presence of network externalities tends to make the entrepreneur prefer sale to entry. Moreover, we also show that the incentive to innovate for entry decreases when network...
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