Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions
By Florian Ederer, Regina Seibel, and Timothy Simcoe
This article investigates how acquisitions of startups by major technology companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others affect innovation.
Tag: Innovation
Second-Tier Stock Markets: The Hidden Engine Behind Global Entrepreneurship
By Huasheng Gao, Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Yuxi Wang
Many countries established their second-tier stock exchanges following the idea and format of NASDAQ in order to promote entrepreneurship and high-tech startups.
Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence?
By Jennifer Hunt, Iain Cockburn, and James Bessen
The extent to which geographic distance is a barrier to technological knowledge transfer is of interest to governments of countries distant from centers of knowledge creation or technology production; to entrepreneurs deciding where to locate a new firm that will need to remain abreast of technological developments; and to national or local policy-makers seeking to influence the decisions of such entrepreneurs.
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940—2018
By David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require.
Innovation and Appropriability: Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property
By Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe
Economists generally view innovation as the most significant driver of long-run productivity growth. In their new working paper, Filippo Mezzanotti and Tim Simcoe study how firms capture the benefits of innovation using survey data collected by the US Census between 2008 and 2015.
How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new article “How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation” in Communications of the ACM, Volume 66, Issue 10, October 2023 pp 34–36.
Want to Find the Next Big Company? IP Offers a Clue.
Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director and Filippo Mezzanotti’s research cited in Kellogg Insight, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, August 3, 2023.
Will a Noncompete Ban Impact Innovation Beyond Tech Hubs?
Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director, quoted in the MIT Sloan Management Review, June 28, 2023.
The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new book featured in Politics Today, March 6, 2023.
Technology Is Not Failing—It is transforming the Economy
James Bessen’s OpEd article ‘Technology Is Not Failing—It is transforming the Economy” in The Nikkei, January 20, 2023, and in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum Network, January 24, 2023.