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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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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006

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 Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2004

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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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

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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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2009

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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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012

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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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

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