We examine how IPOs and acquisitions affect entrepreneurial innovation as measured by patent counts and forward patent citations. We construct a firm-year panel dataset of all venture capital-backed biotechnology firms founded between 198'22'008 tracked yearly through 2006. We address the...

Empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs make mistakes: too many enter markets and, once there, persist too long. While scholars have largely settled on behavioral bias as the cause, we suggest that this consensus is premature. These mistakes may also arise from a process in which...

Recent advances in entrepreneurial practice associated with the Lean Startup has brought a sea-change in conventional wisdom to the practice of entrepreneurship – rather than commit and persevere, the advice is now to pivot your way to success. Yet this normative prescription is not as yet...