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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge …-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not ex-plain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …
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the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … innovation for sale, relative to innovation for entry. …
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The starting point of this paper is that the exit of venture-backed firms often takes place through sales to large incumbent firms. We show that in such an environment, venture-backed firms have a stronger incentive to develop basic innovations into commercialized innovations than incumbent...
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What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...
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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the …, who are renowned specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These …
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sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …
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We develop a theory of commercialization mode (entry or sale) of entrepreneurial inventions into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Moreover, preemptive...
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Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...
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