This paper investigates short-term effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation empirically. Innovation … research has found a strong positive, causal relationship between VC investment and innovation. Using this insight, we can … explore the repercussions of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation by examining their effects on venture capital (VC …

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 … acquisition policy reduces the variety of research approaches pursued by the firms and thereby the probability of discovering …

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 …

This paper analyzes innovation races in a moral hazard setting. I develop a model where two competing entrepreneurs …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …