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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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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
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A Model of Diffusion In the Production of an Innovation
Gort, Michael - 1978
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 …
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Firm Scope and Spillovers from New Product Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices
Grennan, Matthew - 2018
policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …
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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision
Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P. - 2005
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
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Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition
Hausman, Jerry A. - 1994
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) attempts to answer the question of how much more (or less) income does a consumer require to be as well off in period 1 as in period 0 given changes in prices, changes in the quality of goods, and the introduction of new goods (or the disappearance of existing...
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Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking
Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...
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