This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...

This paper develops the theory of a U relation between seller concentration and R&D investment and integrates the new theory with the traditional expectation of an inverted-U relation. The paper illustrates the U relation, and the integrated U and inverted-U relations, for a single type of R&D...

We study the problem faced by the entrepreneur seeking outside support to turn an entrepreneurial idea into a successful innovation — specifically a successful technological innovation resulting from research and development. The paper develops and tests the hypothesis that as an...

[This version of the “version group” adds new content (including additional respondents, more descriptive information from and about the respondents, and more discussion of the method) to the earlier SSRN version at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240940' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240940.] We...