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Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation
Cao, Ruiqing; Koning, Rembrand M.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's 'beta testers' on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods to...
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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Digital technologies and fintech firms have rapidly reshaped the consumer financial landscape in recent years, and have the potential to help consumers make better decisions and improve their financial health. Existing technologies such as autopay are also experiencing increased takeup, a trend...
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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480704
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Appropriability and the timing of innovation : Evidence from MIT inventions
Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2003
At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468963
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Successful technological integration for competitive advantage in retail settings
Pantano, Eleonora (ed.) - 2015
/ Philipp Spreer, Katrin Kallweit -- Towards a benchmark in the innovation of the retail channel / Milena Viassone -- Radical … and incremental innovation effectiveness in relation to market orientation in the retail industry: triggers, drivers, and … supporters / Michael Lewrick [and 4 others] -- Fashion retail innovation: about context, antecedents, and outcome in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011728216
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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...
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Application of experimental methods to economics of innovation
Asanov, Igor A. - 2014
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Adoption technologiebasierter Self-Service-Innovationen : Analyse der Wirkungsmechanismen im Entscheidungsprozess der Konsumenten
Harms, Ann-Kathrin - 2002 - 1. Aufl
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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative evidence showing that how innovation and design work was done changed … fundamentally during the Industrial Revolution. This change was characterized by the professionalization of innovation and design …
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