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Firm Scope and Spillovers from New Product Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices
Grennan, Matthew - 2018
policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …
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Valuation of New Goods Under Perfect and Imperfect Competition
Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) attempts to answer the question of how much more (or less) income does a consumer require to be as well off in period 1 as in period 0 given changes in prices, changes in the quality of goods, and the introduction of new goods (or the disappearance of existing...
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2021
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244133
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A Model of Diffusion in the Production of an Innovation
Gort, Michael; Konakayama, Akira - 2022
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 …
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Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation
Cao, Ruiqing; Koning, Rembrand; Nanda, Ramana - 2022
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's ‘beta testers’ on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods...
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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922975
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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062172
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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065646
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …
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