divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship …, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in …

A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging … imitation. Our findings suggest that staged exploration may stall innovation as a result of the replacement effect, increasing …

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

This paper explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a … enormously valuable for innovation and growth, but can impede heterodox thinking and imagination; c) large-firm R&D requires … are effective, we know little about training for the critical task of breakthrough innovation …

entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition …), especially in innovation based industries. Striving for a cash-out makes mistakes more likely and increases the probability of …

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …