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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818447
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we … find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877893
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we … find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291511
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2009
that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market … destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents … granted to small firms and individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are often sold, and that they are sold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320309
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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012
Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320328
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market … destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents … granted to small firms and individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are often sold, and that they are sold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964394
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Verifying high quality: Entry for sale
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017
sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal information on quality. Incumbents are then willing to pay high prices for … high-quality inventions to preempt rivals from obtaining them. Using Swedish data on patents granted to small firms and … individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition, post entry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917062
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016
This paper examines how entrepreneurs and incumbents differ in R&D strategies. We show that entrepreneurs have incentives to choose projects with higher risk and a higher potential in order to reduce expected commercialization costs. However, entrepreneurs may still select too safe projects from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549385
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 605, pp. 164-199
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758252
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Verifying high quality : entry for sale
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017
sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal information on quality. Incumbents are then willing to pay high prices for … high-quality inventions to preempt rivals from obtaining them. Using Swedish data on patents granted to small firms and … individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition, post entry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742388