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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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Hidden in plain sight : how to find and execute your company's next big growth strategy

Joachimsthaler, Erich; Joachimsthaler, Erich A. - 2007 - 1. Aufl.

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The Medici effect : what elephants and epidemics can teach us about innovation

Johansson, Frans - 2006

The intersection: your best chance to innovate: monkeys and mind readers -- The rise of intersections: the sounds of Shakira and the emotions of Shrek -- Break down the barriers between fields: sea urchin lollipops and Darwin's finches -- How to make the barriers fall: Heathrow Tunnel and...

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Creating breakthrough innovations : [generate new ideas, reduce risk, compete for new customers]

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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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Why not? : how to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small

Nalebuff, Barry; Ayres, Ian - 2003

The way things never were -- Good ideas and how to generate them -- Problems in search of solutions -- What would croesus do? taking the perspective of an unconstrained consumer -- Why dont you feel my pain? internalizing the external effects of decision making -- Solutions in search of problems...

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