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Competition in product design: An experiment exploring innovation behavior

Cantner, Uwe; Güth, Werner; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …

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Employment Growth of New Firms

Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the environment. The central research question is: How strong is the relationship between dynamic capabilities and...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090524

Public health policy decisions on medical innovations: What role can early economic evaluation play?

Hartz, Susanne; John, Jürgen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

include the uncertainty related to economic data at early stages as well as the timing of the evaluation of an innovation …

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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090550

The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle

Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …

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Creating Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Governance in New Ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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How Does Industry Specialization Affect the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study analyzes the relationship between the specialization of a region in certain industries and the efficiency of the region in generating new knowledge. The efficiency measure is constructed by relating regional R&D input and output. An inversely u-shaped relationship is found between...

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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

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Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle - The Case of the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates how the survival of firms over the industry life cycle is affected by different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a statistical survival analysis is performed for the German...

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