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commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …) competitive commercialization and the eventual replacement of incumbents, we consider a dynamic strategy involving product market … entry before switching to a cooperative commercialization strategy. Empirical evidence from the automated speech recognition …
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commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … advantage over faculty startups, and that on average the probability of successful commercialization is somewhat higher in the …
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Startups in IT and life sciences appear to be flourishing. However, startups in other sectors, such as new materials, automation, and eco-innovations, which are often called "deep tech", seem to struggle. We argue that innovations with both technical and commercial challenges, typical of deep...
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Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...
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), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing, and start-ups) and traditional academic scholarship. It exploits large … faculty) and important than is academic commercialization (at 19% of faculty). Academic engagement generates 15-20 times the … research funds than academic commercialization does, but both continue to be dwarfed by public funding. We find evidence of …
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Using a comprehensive linked employer-employee database from Brazil for the period 1995-2001, we are able for the first time to compare firms founded as employee spinoffs to new firms without parents and to diversification ventures of existing firms entering a new industry. Employee spinoffs are...
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In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
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Which factors shape the commercialization of academic scientific discoveries via startup formation? Prior literature … precisely examine characteristics that predict startup commercialization. In this framework, several commonly-accepted factors … appear not to influence commercialization. However, we find that teams of academic scientists whose former collaborators …
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We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic frontier production function framework is used to assess the...
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The local academic science base plays a dominant role in determining where and when biotechnology is adopted by existing firms or -- much more frequently -- exploited by new entrants in the U.S. In Japan this new dominant technology has almost exclusively been introduced through organizational...
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