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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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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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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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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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-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …
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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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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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/ 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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