Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

-taking, operating performance and innovation activity of superstars' competitors as potential channels for this positive performance … potentially increases their rent seeking profits. In the third paper, Are There Peer Effects In Innovation?, we investigate how … companies react to their peers' innovation activities, such as new patents. Exploiting exogenous …

This dissertation explores how firms create and capture value with business model innovation. The goal is to contribute … to research on business model innovation and to thereby strengthen firms' capabilities to innovate their business models … business model innovation teams within organizations. The first article deals with innovation teams commissioned to innovate a …