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-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … desire of governments to foster risky 'breakthrough' innovations. -- business taxation ; innovation ; market entry … to an incumbent firm) are endogenous. We show that government programs to support small businesses foster market entry by …
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of these agreements shuts down socially profitable spinoff firms. Non-enforcement sacrifices entry of original firms that …We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …, optimal entry of original firms and all subsequent employee spinoffs is achieved, despite the fact that the original firm can …
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. -- acquisitions ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; start …
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unambiguously fosters innovation activity of firms, and possibly, leads to faster growth. This result rests on two premises which … for the socially optimal policy design with respect to R&D subsidies and entry incentives. …
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intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … and growth carries over to the Cournot set-up. -- competition ; imitation ; innovation ; Schumpeterian growth ; sector …
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This paper explores an equilibrium model for industry entry dynamics and technological change. We focus on the share …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …
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Today, start-ups often obtain financing via the Internet through many small contributions of non-sophisticated investors. Yet little is known about whether these start-ups can ultimately build enduring businesses. In this paper, we hand-collected data from 38 different equity crowdfunding (ECF)...
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