The question of whether opening a new technology to secondary developers stimulates innovation is central to public … than doing so to simply promote diffusion of a technology …

modularity. The objective is not to propose an alternative theory. More modestly, I am aiming to move the debate away from …Research on “modularity” has made an important contribution to the study of technical change and economic institutions …. It demonstrates that progress in the division of labor in design (technical modularity) has created new opportunities for …

The purpose of this chapter is to understand how technology contributed to the emergence and evolution of modular … microeconomic theory to explain how firms capture value in these settings, and show how the theory can be operationalized using the … financial measure return on invested capital (ROIC).Technologies that shape organizations perforce affect the location of jobs …

We develop a theory of commercialization mode (entry or sale) of entrepreneurial inventions into oligopoly, and show …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

“lemons problem” theory as well as the various regulatory solutions proposed to deal with the problem of asymmetric …

. However, the best strategy for innovative entrepreneurs might be to make an early entry to signal innovation quality and …