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 …

This paper develops a model of repeated innovation with knowledge spillovers. The model's novel feature is that firms … compete on two dimensions: 1) product quality or cost, where one firm's innovation ultimately spills over to other firms; and … some circumstances dramatically reduce the long-run average level of innovation; 2) they lead to endogenous bunching, or …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … innovation. The principal variable that explains diffusion of entry is the demonstration effect. The principal variable that …

policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …