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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H.; Stern, Scott - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 5, pp. 982-997

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm

Cohen, Wesley M.; Levinthal, Daniel A. - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 2, pp. 227-251

A critical factor in industrial competitiveness is the ability of firms to exploit new technological developments. We term this ability a firm's absorptive capacity and argue that such a capability not only enables a firm to exploit new extramural knowledge, but to predict more accurately the...

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The Importance of Organizational Structure for the Adoption of Innovations

DeCanio, Stephen J.; Dibble, Catherine; Amir-Atefi, Keyvan - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 10, pp. 1285-1299

time to adjust. This paper develops a computational model of the diffusion of a profitable innovation through a firm, and …

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Competing with New Product Technologies: A Process Model of Strategy

Das, Shobha S.; Ven, Andrew H. Van de - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 10, pp. 1300-1316

This paper draws upon research in the economics of technical change and in the social construction of technology to develop and test a process model of strategy. We conducted a longitudinal study of leading firms that were sponsoring new and competing product technologies in two industries: the...

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Two Faces: Effects of Business Groups on Innovation in Emerging Economies

Mahmood, Ishtiaq P.; Mitchell, Will - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 10, pp. 1348-1365

This paper shows that business groups in emerging economies exert dual effects on innovation. While groups facilitate … innovation by providing institutional infrastructure, groups also discourage innovation by creating entry barriers for nongroup … interplay of the availability of innovation infrastructure and variety of ideas influences the level of innovation in an …

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Asymmetric New Product Development Alliances: Win-Win or Win-Lose Partnerships?

Kalaignanam, Kartik; Shankar, Venkatesh; Varadarajan, Rajan - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 3, pp. 357-374

Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in high … covering 167 asymmetric alliances in the information technology and communication industries. In this model, we examine …

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How Do Value Creation and Competition Determine Whether a Firm Appropriates Value?

MacDonald, Glenn; Ryall, Michael D. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 10, pp. 1319-1333

How does competition among economic actors determine the value that each is able to appropriate? We provide a formal, general framework within which this question can be posed and answered, and then provide several results. Chief among them is a condition that is both required for, and...

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New Product Innovation with Multiple Features and Technology Constraints

Gjerde, Kathy A. Paulson; Slotnick, Susan A.; Sobel, … - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 10, pp. 1268-1284

We model a firm's decisions about product innovation, focusing on the extent to which features should be improved or …

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Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development

Shah, Sonali K. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1000-1014

Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little about why developers choose to participate in this collective development process. This paper inductively derives a framework for understanding participation from the perspective...

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"Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation

Hippel, Eric von - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 4, pp. 429-439

." In this paper we explore the impact of information stickiness on the locus of innovation-related problem solving. We find … innovation, and the nature of problems selected by problem solvers. …

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