This paper analyzes the high-tech economies of 350-plus metropolitan areas across the U.S. during 2010. Attention is given to 20 different production attributes—including the age and education of the workforce, patent production, business startups, per capita productivity of the workers, and the like. Multivariate analysis is used to reduce these 20 attributes down to 10 orthogonal dimensions; ...

1 DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years Rob A. Rutenbar University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign How does one survey a quarter century of technical contributions at a world-­‐class venue like the Design Automation Conference? This was the daunting challenge I faced when asked to survey the second 25 years of DAC’s history at the 50th anniversary conference event in 2013. One can imagine severa...

This paper introduces a comprehensive data set of patents issued in the U.S. between 1975 and 1998 in the biological sciences applied to plant agriculture. Novel sampling techniques are employed along with a multinomial econometric model to analyze the differences in patenting across the R&D sectors of the economy. Hypotheses are presented that universities and public institutions specialize in...

In the 1990s, the broad diffusion of the internet allowed firms such as Amazon, eBay, and Google to invent new digital business models. Since then, research has formalized recurring configurations as digital business model types, still frequently being used to analyze existing business models and develop new ones. Now, the next wave of digital transformation – enabled by ongoing improvements in...

The disruptive innovation (DI) theory developed by Clayton Christensen has been one of the most influential management concepts in recent years, being required reading at such prominent companies as Microsoft, AT&T and Cisco Systems. In this paper we describe the disruptive innovation process and analyze the underlying assumptions of both the theory and of its practice implications. We argue th...

In this paper we look at the effectiveness of business networks created by alumni of different universities. In particular, we analyze the networking behavior of entrepreneurs in Germany through the emergent structures of their virtual social networks. We automatically collected the publicly accessible portion of the German business networking site Xing.com by crawling the Web. We then filtered...

Objetivo: Diagnosticar como as aceleradoras colaboram para o desenvolvimento de competências internacionais em startups e verificar quais principais digitais empreendedoras desenvolvidas no ambiente aceleração startups. Método: A abordagem é qualitativa. O método utilizado a análise conteúdo. Os dados foram coletados com gestores das regiões São Paulo (SP) Vitória (ES). Principais resultados: r...

The purpose of this study is to calculate the quantitative and qualitative contribution intellectual property rights owned by startups for successful commercialization. In 4th industrial revolution economy, rights, which play an important role in job creation economic growth, a very startups. particular, are most asset startups, it necessary promote sustainable growth through efficient manageme...