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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge : Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

Gans, Joshua S. - 2016

This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the tension over knowledge disclosure between firms and their scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can limit a firm's competitive advantage or ability to...

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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Gans, Joshua S.; Stern, Scott - 2022

Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty … regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this …

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Control Versus Execution : Endogenous Appropriability and Entrepreneurial Strategy

Ching, Kenny - 2018

an innovation is exogenous, we focus on the endogenous choice entrepreneurs face between investing in ensuring control … entrepreneurs to advance more quickly than competitors, while control requires delays in commercialization. Control and execution … these rents is uncertain, entrepreneurs may be unable to rank these alternative paths in advance, and so their endogenous …

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When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H.; Stern, Scott - 2021

This paper is motivated by the substantial differences in start-up commercialization strategies observed across different high-technology sectors. Specifically, we evaluate the conditions under which start-up innovators earn their returns on innovation through product market competition with...

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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry

Marx, Matt - 2015

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement - incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing...

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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach

Gans, Joshua S.; Kearney, Michael; Scott, Erin; Stern, Scott - 2022

evolution of technology is largely shaped by the strategic choices entrepreneurs make, then why do technological trajectories …

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Funding Scientific Knowledge : Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio

Gans, Joshua S. - 2014

This paper examines argues that while two distinct perspectives characterize the foundations of the public funding of research - filling a selection gap and solving a disclosure problem - in fact both the selection choices of public funders and their criteria for disclosure and commercialization...

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Test Sensitivity for Infection Versus Infectiousness of Sars-Cov-2

Gans, Joshua S. - 2020

The most commonly used test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 is a PCR test that is able to detect very low viral loads and inform on treatment decisions. Medical research has confirmed that many individuals might be infected with SARS-CoV-2 but not infectious. Knowing whether an individual is...

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The Economic Consequences of R̂ : Towards a Workable Behavioural Epidemiological Model of Pandemics

Gans, Joshua S. - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on incorporating behavioural elements into epidemiological models of pandemics. While modelling behaviour by forward-looking rational agents can provide some insight into the time paths of pandemics, the non-stationary nature of Susceptible-Infected-Removed...

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