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

Marx, Matt - 2013

commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation : Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1996

This paper evaluates the sources of transitory market power in the market for personal computers (PCs) during the late 1980's. Our analysis is motivated by the coexistence of low entry barriers into the PC industry and high rates of innovative investment by a small number of PC manufacturers. We...

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The Theory of Allocation and Its Implications for Marketing and Industrial Structure

Carlton, Dennis W. - 1991

This paper identifies a cost of using the price system and from that develops a general theory of allocation. The … theory explains why a buyer's stochastic purchasing behavior matters to a seller. This leads to a theory of optimal customer … mix much akin to the theory of optimal portfolio composition. It is the job of a firm's marketing department to put …

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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

Startups in IT and life sciences appear to be flourishing. However, startups in other sectors, such as new materials, automation, and eco-innovations, which are often called "deep tech", seem to struggle. We argue that innovations with both technical and commercial challenges, typical of deep...

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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor

Arora, Ashish - 2018

We study how the inventive capability of a firm conditions its participation in a division of innovative labor. Capable firms are, by definition, able to invent; for them, external inventions substitute for their own R&D. However, external knowledge is an input into internal invention, and thus,...

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Intracompany Governance and Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon - 2009

This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and publicly traded innovating firms in the US and 15 European countries. A striking novel observation emerges from our analysis: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly...

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas : Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology

Arora, Ashish - 2012

Over the last decade, companies have paid greater attention to the management of their intellectual assets. We build a model that helps understand how licensing activity should be organized within large corporations. More specifically, we compare decentralization--where the business unit using...

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Diversity and Technological Progress

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

This paper proposes a tractable model to study the equilibrium diversity of technological progress and shows that equilibrium technological progress may exhibit too little diversity (too much conformity), in particular, foregoing socially beneficial investments in "alternative" technologies that...

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Managing Innovation in a Crowd

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open call. At the center of crowdsourcing is a resource allocation problem: there is an abundance of workers but a scarcity of high skills, and an easy task assigned to a high-skill...

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