Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the perceptible movement of empirical scholars
from a narrow concern with the role of firm size and market concentration toward a broader …

Publisher Summary The analysis of the timing of innovation posits a particular innovation
and examines the way the expected benefits, the cost of research and development, and …

This paper argues that incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue
the target's innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions …

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic
analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what …

This paper presents a synthetic framework identifying the central drivers of start-up
commercialization strategy and the implications of these drivers for industrial dynamics. We …

In several key industries, including semiconductors, biotechnology, computer software, and
the Internet, our patent system is creating a patent thicket: an overlapping set of patent rights …

The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic
organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development …

Annotation There is a strong awareness that the new economy has arrived, and that firms
and management need to focus on a plethora of new issues at present only dimly perceived …

Moderne Managementkonzepte konzentrieren sich nicht nur auf interne Stärken von
Unternehmen, sondern schließen die Gestaltung zwischenbetrieblicher Beziehungen als …

We argue that when innovation is “sequential”(so that each successive invention builds in
an essential way on its predecessors) and “complementary”(so that each potential innovator …