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The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision making and R&D rivalry. To supplement this formal standard setting process, it has thus become frequent that part of the involved firms creates ad hoc consortia to better align...
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Tacit knowledge affects the trade-off between entrepreneurship and technology transfer. I present a formal model in …-use through entrepreneurship can exceed the benefits from technology transfer. In equilibrium, higher-quality inventions result in … entrepreneurship and lower-quality inventions result in technology transfer. R&D investment and absorption investment are strategic …
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In industries with network effects, incumbents' installed bases create barriers to entry that discourage entrepreneurs from developing new innovations. Yet, entry is not the only commercialization route for entrepreneurs. We show that the option of selling to an incumbent increases the...
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We model an employee's decision to pursue an innovative idea at his employing firm (internally) or as a start-up (externally). We characterize an idea by its market profitability and the degree of positive/negative externality that it imposes on the employing firm's profits. The innovation...
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