When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …

policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … promoting the adoption of new human resource practices …

This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … innovation. The principal variable that explains diffusion of entry is the demonstration effect. The principal variable that …

generating innovation and economic growth. In this chapter, we seek to offer some description of engineering work by looking in … detail at a specific manufacturing industry—firms that supply automakers—to gain insight into how engineers create innovation … engineers, making the auto supply chain an important context in which to study engineering and innovation.Some highlights from …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …