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 …

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … and more general than innovation by incumbent firms. Moreover, startups that survive to become "scale-ups" quickly grow to … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private …

co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find … technology already used by a peer startup. This effect is largest for startups within close proximity of each other and quickly … decays: startups more than 20 meters apart on the same floor are indistinguishable from startups on different floors. The …

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 …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

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 …

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