Universities are a key institution in the US innovation system and an important aspect of their involvement is the role they play in Private-Public Partnering activities. This study seeks to gain a better understanding of the performance of university-industry research partnerships using a...

This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...

Following the passage of the Celler-Kefauver Act in 1950, courts began applying Section 7 of the Clayton Act to conglomerate mergers. In recent years, however, conglomerate merger enforcement has been largely dormant. Yet during the same period when enforcement practices turned their focus away...

This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...

This paper develops the theory of a U relation between seller concentration and R&D investment and integrates the new theory with the traditional expectation of an inverted-U relation. The paper illustrates the U relation, and the integrated U and inverted-U relations, for a single type of R&D...

We study the problem faced by the entrepreneur seeking outside support to turn an entrepreneurial idea into a successful innovation — specifically a successful technological innovation resulting from research and development. The paper develops and tests the hypothesis that as an...

The primary object of Rousseau's educational project in Emile is the reader. Rousseau educates his reader by forcing a comparison between the children we know and his pupil Emile. One specific device Rousseau uses in this vein is the illustrations of the work. I analyze the first two engravings...