To enter new markets and remain competitive in the existing markets, companies need to shift their focus from traditional means and ways to some innovative approaches. Though the paper industry in India has improved remarkably on its technological and environmental issues, yet it shows a low rate of innovation. The present paper attempts to review the industry in the perspecti...

Optimal patent breadth is an issue that is still being vigorously debated at both the theoretical and empirical levels. This paper analyzes optimal patent policy in the context of cumulative innovation in a model that endogenizes the patenting decisions of early innovators. In the theoretical literature on cumulative innovation, it is generally assumed that all innovations are patented. However...

Innovators (i.e., consumers who are the first to adopt an innovation) are pivotal for the societal diffusion of sustainable innovations. But when are innovators most influential? Recent work suggests that morally motivated innovators (i.e., consumers who adopt an innovation out of concern for the welfare of others) can make fellow consumers who have not yet adopted that innovation feel morally ...

The purpose of our study is to test the robustness of innovation theory. Today, many companies are ‘going green’ to respond to the demand from government, consumers, and general public and also to improve competitiveness. To investigate if information technology (IT) innovators achieve competitive advantage even after going green, we first selected IT innovators using the most recent Informatio...

Firms that manufacture products and services have an incentive to develop innovations that appeal as strongly as possible to as wide a customer base as possible in order to enhance their innovation-related profits. Research into the incentives operating on user-innovators, however, leads us to hypothesize that this category of innovators will display a very different pattern. Prior research has...

This study revisits the impact of IT innovation on firm performance using the Information Week 500 databases and tests the robustness of innovation theory. Using the most recent dataset, this study not only compares performance of IT innovators with average industry performance but also compares it with a firm in the same industry and of similar size. It also compares performance of IT innovato...

Innovation is poorly understood. Generally, it is presented as a rational process of matching a brilliant idea with market needs via a sustainable business model. In business schools and entrepreneurial programs everywhere, future innovators are taught how to represent this stylized process in business plans. This approach is flawed inasmuch as it ignores the reflexive behaviour of the innovato...

Those arguing in favor of strong intellectual property protection claim that, without such legal constraints, innovators are at the mercy of imitators. In practice innovators however invest actively in making their products technologically hard to reverse engineer. We consider the dynamics of imitation and protection of innovations. We show that innovators can obtain high pro…ts in the absence ...

The Roman imperial monarchy is generally studied from the vantage point of ancient Roman history: the “Roman emperor” is viewed and analyzed as an element of the Roman world. This conventional approach fails to place this institution in a broader comparative context, that of monarchical rulers across world history. Systematic comparison opens up new perspectives and is indispensable in identify...