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 …

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

(process) R&D and quality (efficiency), and find strong evidence that process innovation is related to higher efficiency, while … product innovation is associated with higher product quality. We discuss the welfare implications of these two distinct … innovation activities …

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 …