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A Road Untaken: What Makes Entrepreneurs Promote Breakthrough Innovation?

Publish Time:2018-05-07

ShanghaiTech SEM Working Paper No. 2018-009

  

Yujin Kim

ShanghaiTech University - School of Entrepreneurship and Management

  

Abstract

This paper examines the strategic conditions that drive entrepreneurial innovators to pursue novel innovation rather than innovation that is closer to existing technologies. To an increasing extent, startups commercialize innovation in a cooperative setup. Because radical breakthrough innovation ...

 

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Keywords: technology commercialization strategy (TCS), innovation, entrepreneurship, R&D alliance, information asymmetry, biotechnology, the pharmaceutical industry

  

Date Written: April 12th, 2018

  

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3161869