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 …

Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially … more differentiated firms that survive the increase in competition have better performance ex-post, but are ex-ante more …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance … concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …

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 …

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 … entrepreneurial strategy. A subtle consequence is that the appropriability regime ultimately governing an innovation will be the …

-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 …

performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality (part of which stems …