Drawing on hard data from the Federal Reserve and other sources, this book paints the first reliable group portrait of the angel investors. The data show that angels are fewer, contribute less, and involve themselves in fewer start-ups than the conventional wisdom suggests. Fewer in number than...

To take advantage of the globalization of markets, multinational corporations have increased the amount of innovation undertaken in their overseas subsidiaries. This has meant that managers in many different cultural environments now are innovating. This dissertation examines how the cultural...

At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions...