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The birth of a new industry: Entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth. The case of encryption software

Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003

firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co …

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Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - 2007

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to use … that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of superstar fast-growth firms. We also discuss policy implications …

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Missing the starting gun? Entry timing decisions into new market niches

Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003

This study analyzes incumbent entry timing decisions in new markets in the case of Encryption Software (ES). In ES first technological movers were slow to enter the downstream market, losing their initial advantages to the benefit of newcomers. This work tests the hypothesis that this...

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