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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry

Marx, Matt - 2013

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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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 …

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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Aghion, Philippe - 2006

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

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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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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul - 2006

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. Funding by more...

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Azoulay, Pierre - 2018

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to produce the most successful new firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful...

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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges

Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …

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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach

Gans, Joshua S. - 2020

A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging … imitation. Our findings suggest that staged exploration may stall innovation as a result of the replacement effect, increasing …

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