This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...

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 paper introduces and describes the invention-insight sample space and uses it to describe the creative process of discovering invention insights — the essential combinations of elements of knowledge to envision the basic working configurations of inventions, the working ideas for new...

In this exciting work, Link and Scott summarize more than a decade of their research on public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms, concluding public R&D investments, primarily funded by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, are indeed bending the arc of...