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When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge

Baldwin, Carliss Y. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010

This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system …

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Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of external finance shape both the...

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Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Huckman, Robert S.; Staats, Bradley R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

of knowledge acquisition and knowledge application. While variation in experience may permit the acquisition of valuable … knowledge, additional mechanisms may be necessary to enable the subsequent application of that knowledge in a team setting. We … mechanism for uniting knowledge acquisition and knowledge application and provides insight into how the management of experience …

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Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Anik, Lalin; Aknin, Lara B.; Norton, Michael I.; Dunn, … - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

In knowledge-intensive settings such as product or software development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets … diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base, but also creates coordination …

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Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Shore, Jesse; Bernstein, Ethan; Lazer, David - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

knowledge work and reveals the challenges inherent in manipulating network structure to enhance performance, as the …

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005

This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic … quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to individual patent records. International patent citations con.rm knowledge … suggest channels for transferring codified and tacit knowledge partly shape the effective technology frontiers of developing …

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Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms

Llanes, Gastón; Elejalde, Ramiro de - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in...

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Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2011

We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional on going public are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest that VCs invest in riskier and...

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