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When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …
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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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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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, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent … of new firm entry, but rather by a small subset of high-growth startups that are primarily categorized as innovation …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …
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the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …
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This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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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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Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … effect on the rate of breakthrough innovation and the profitability of firms …
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effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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Our histories depart somewhat from the bulk of the energy innovation policy literature in focusing attention on the … role of vigorous competition - particularly entry - in stimulating innovation, suggesting that in several industries a mix … stimulating innovation by encouraging extensive competition and entry by newly founded firms. Many of the most innovative …
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