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

acquisition of majority language skills can be socially beneficial. The theory is tested and confirmed by examining U.S. Census …Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of …

paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and … language in visual art was dominated by conceptual artists, and the increasing role of language over time was symptomatic of … intellectual activity, to be read. The prominence of language is yet another way in which the visual art of the twentieth century …

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 …

This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …

of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …