Breakthroughs and the ¿Long Tail¿ of Innovation

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Public Governance, Corporate Governance, and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-Owned Enterprises (2019, unknown): “Highly novel technologies are costly to develop because novel innovation frequently take longer to create, are riskier to develop, and have higher failure rates than general technologies (Fleming, 2001, 2007).”
The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas? (2012, background): “In such a situation, looking at means versus the “best versus the rest” would naturally raise fairly different practical and theoretical implications (Fleming 2007).”
Open innovation for SMEs in developing countries – An intermediated communication network model for collaboration beyond obstacles (2012, background): “Independent inventors who participate in inventor networks are able to make better choices about pursuing good ideas (Fleming 2007; Hienerth & Lettl 2011) and can receive good feedback from their community; Breschi and Catalini (2010, p. 24) show deep analysis of scientists’ and innovators’…”
Do non‐competition agreements lead firms to pursue risky R&D projects? (2014, background): “Greater riskiness in the outcome distribution appears preferable in the quest for extremely valuable outcomes (Fleming, 2007; March, 1991) because it fattens the right-hand tail of inventions’ value distributions, increasing the likelihood of breakthroughs.”