Blocked But Not Tackled: Who Founds New Firms When Rivals Dissolve?

When Are New Firms More Innovative than Established Firms?

We propose a model in which industry conditions influence the relative advantages of new and established firms as innovators. Using a unique data set of commercialization attempts of inventions simultaneously at risk of commercialization by both new and established firms, we find that industry characteristics including the number of firms in the industry, the size of the market, the availabilit...

Evolution: When Dinosaurs Bested Their Early Rivals

A sublime fossil discovery in Brazil shows that dinosaurs and their immediate evolutionary precursors lived together for tens of millions of years before dinosaurs ultimately rose to the top.

"If not us, who? If not now, when?".

Not if but when; no longer why but how

There is accruing evidence that information technology can improve patient health care, with several trials of technology showing smaller numbers of medication errors, or can provide earlier detection of adverse events. Critics of this type of research point out that better resolution of events is of no value unless their direct management influences clinical outcome. Nevertheless, indirect evi...

not intervention but participation

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