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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges

Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Startups in IT and life sciences appear to be flourishing. However, startups in other sectors, such as new materials, automation, and eco-innovations, which are often called "deep tech", seem to struggle. We argue that innovations with both technical and commercial challenges, typical of deep...

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Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2009

We examine variation in the concentration of inventive activity across 72 of North America's most highly innovative locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as "company towns.'' We find that inventors employed by...

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Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship

Botelho, Tristan L.; Fehder, Daniel; Hochberg, Yael V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship … research provides evidence that the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth is driven not by overall quantity …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …

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Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship

Ashraf, Nava - 2019

segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …

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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Aghion, Philippe - 2006

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...

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Education for Innovation : Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs vs. Corporate Incremental Improvements

Baumol, William J. - 2004

This paper explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a …

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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

Field, Erica - 2015

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...

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