industrial dynamics, articulates the role and function of entrepreneurial experimentation in innovation systems. This paper … develops the concept of "entrepreneurial systems of innovation" to address this gap in the literature. We argue that … conceptualized in terms of its function in innovation systems rather than as an outcome. At the systems level, the central function …

industrial dynamics, articulates the role and function of entrepreneurial experimentation in innovation systems. This paper … develops the concept of ‘entrepreneurial systems of innovation' to address this gap in the literature. We argue that … conceptualized in terms of its function in innovation systems rather than as an outcome. At the systems level, the central function …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a …, prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative overall innovation effect. We provide conditions determining the size of the effect …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

rival market. We show that this strategic effect dominates the usual "innovation for buyout effect" when the entrant …'s bargaining power is below a threshold. Allowing for acquisitions may improve the direction of innovation of each of the players …