Innovators

Does Market Selection Reward Innovators ?

Are complex innovators more persistent than single innovators ? An empirical analysis of innovation persistence drivers

This paper examines the persistence of innovation behaviour at the firm level (manufacturing and services sectors). We attempt to answer the question: does being successful in past innovation activities increase the probability of being successful in current innovation activities? We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguishing between single and complex innovation strategies. Usin...

Customers as service innovators within business networks

Customers as service innovators within business networks"

Rewarding Duopoly Innovators: The Price of Exclusivity∗

We study an environment where a duopoly develops innovations that build on one another. The quality of innovations is private information, so optimal rewards take the form of rights to produce the resulting products. There is a tradeo between encouraging one rm to work on its innovations by granting it promised rights, and the fact that those rights deteriorate the rights of its competitors. We...

Design Talk in a Community of Innovators

This technical report describes an exploratory analysis of a community of innovators who indirectly contributed to the design of del.icio.us, a system for social tagging. Participants in this community, which is mediated primarily by an e-mail listserv and guided by a de-facto moderator, envision and reflect upon systems for social tagging. The analysis of a sample of messages shows that partic...