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local and technological innovation systems and the dynamics of innovation cascades …
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community. We describe how an internal idea competition in a large company has evolved over time into a much broader innovation …As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While … innovation and corporate entrepreneurship …
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“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...
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We study how incentives to boost short-term performance affect longer-term innovation output. Share repurchases that … innovation outputs such as forward citation counts and the economic value of patents. These results appear to be driven by a … shift in firms' innovation strategy. Firms are more likely to explore newer technologies and to increase the scope of …
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workers can learn from each other's experience, incentives for innovation fundamentally differ from incentives for routine … incentives and innovation. When subjects in a controlled laboratory experiment are asked to perform a task that requires …-for-performance contracts. Innovation success and performance is highest when subjects receive a mix of individual and group incentives that …
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[This version of the “version group” adds new content (including additional respondents, more descriptive information from and about the respondents, and more discussion of the method) to the earlier SSRN version at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240940' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240940.] We...
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We model the economics of the effects of standards on incentives for innovative investment. We use survey data from …
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This study analyses the incentives for process innovations under different conditions determined by the competition … policy for intellectual property rights (IPR) and particular features of markets and technologies. Competition policy is … technological competition. The results of modelling show that the uncertainty engendered by technological competition may lower the …
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inflating the role of relational norms but by explicating a new positive theory of contract design …
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of innovation, but could in principle have the reverse effect, unless the effects of asymmetries of market power and … sources of variety that can renew innovation …
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