Recent research suggests that individual inventors produce less valuable inventions than those operating within organizational boundaries. The current study demonstrates that organizations invent and file for patents earlier than individuals. Analyses of priority contests between competing...

This study reveals the process behind the growth and emergence of an entrepreneurial firm's outstreaming business units, and the consequences for the wider corporation. It appears that outstreaming involves four steps: (1) exploration in the form of vertical integration to make an input for...