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innovation, and it is more rare and much harder to discover than sustaining innovation. But, it provides both higher investment …
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The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains (TDs). Using a large-scale dataset combining data from the EPO-PATSTAT database and ORBIS-IP and containing patents applied at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new...
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High neo-natal mortality is one of the most salient 'facts' about firm performance in the industrial organization literature. We model firm survival and examine the relative influence of firm, industry and macroeconomic factors on survival for new vis-à-vis incumbent firms. In particular, we...
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We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological … of returns to scale. When the investment time horizon is beyond a threshold value, the best choice becomes diversity …
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Android fragmentation, we find that while the platform investment does not immediately reduce Android fragmentation, app … platform investment. We find support of two possible explanations of the positive platform investment effect: anticipated lower …’ anticipation of lowered innovation cost in the future, as the impact of platform investment is greater for developers with more …
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Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves to be challenging, leading researchers to rely on a variety of different signals, such as reported R&D expenditures, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that...
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We open the black box of corporate innovation production by examining its most important input: the employees tasked with creating new inventions. Using a novel within-firm research design involving all U.S.-based corporate inventors, we first find that shared inherited traits (cultural values...
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This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in client/server networks had a higher likelihood of...
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This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. We categorize the different approaches to understand and model innovation processes into two types. First, the so-called innovation management approach focuses on the evolution of corporate...
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Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across otherwise dispersed competences. The paper...
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