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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
Marx, Matt - 2013
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 …
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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. - 2005
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry R. - 2012
We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460481
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455897
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The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2017
Do information differences across U.S. physicians contribute to treatment disparities? This paper uses a unique new dataset to evaluate how changes in physician access to a decision-relevant drug database affect prescribing decisions. Our results indicate that doctors using the reference have a...
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Cascades in Networks and Aggregate Volatility
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We provide a general framework for the study of cascade effects created by interconnections between sectors, firms or financial institutions. Focusing on a multi sector economy linked through a supply network, we show how structural properties of the supply network determine both whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462141
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2016
We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no- meetings" control group....
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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015
This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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Spatial Production Networks
Arkolakis, Costas; Huneeus, Federico; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use new theory and data to study how firms endogenously form production networks across regions and countries. Supplier and buyer relationships form depending on firms' productivity and geographic location. We characterize the normative and positive properties of the spatial distribution of...
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