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 …

-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship …, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …

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

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 …

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 …

an innovation is exogenous, we focus on the endogenous choice entrepreneurs face between investing in ensuring control … choice will be grounded in factors such as individual preferences, capabilities, or coherence with their overall … entrepreneurial strategy. A subtle consequence is that the appropriability regime ultimately governing an innovation will be the …

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 explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a … enormously valuable for innovation and growth, but can impede heterodox thinking and imagination; c) large-firm R&D requires … are effective, we know little about training for the critical task of breakthrough innovation …