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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...
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When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry …
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where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …
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growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when … entrepreneurs market their product themselves. When innovations reduce only the fixed costs of production this leads to a …
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Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks by evading them …
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change. Through their actions, entrepreneurs have a fundamental influence on institutions, whether they abide by them …
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We argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important, although underrated, source of innovation, and provide the first systematic definition of the concept. We for-mulate four propositions of evasive entrepreneurship and illustrate them with a number of real life examples, ranging from a...
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entrepreneurial ecosystems emerged through actions by business entrepreneurs, rather than being designed by policymakers …. Schumpeterian entrepreneurs not only create new companies; they also create new institutions as an integral part of the … restructuring process. At times, efforts of identifiable entrepreneurs are crucial, while in other instances institutional change …
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beneficial, but when they take the form of innovations introduced by entrepreneurs, they can be a powerful source of economic and …
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Private equity firms are an important part of the industrial restructuring process. We argue that the key is temporary ownership. Buying to sell induces aggressive restructuring since the equilibrium trade sale price increases both because the profits of the acquiring incumbent increase and the...
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