[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...

We model the economics of the effects of standards on incentives for innovative investment. We use survey data from industrial respondents to parameterize our model, allowing us to explain and predict effects of technology standards on investment in the development of technology and thereby...

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...

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich...

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich...