Technological Opportunities and New Firm Creation

By Scott A. Shane. Management Sciences, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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How and Why do Research-Based Start-Ups Differ at Founding? A Resource-Based Configurational Perspective (2004, background): “It is no accident that research-based start-ups (RBSUs), defined here as new business start-ups which develop and market new products or services based upon a proprietary technology or skill, have received a great deal of attention from academics in the last two decades (for example, Roberts, 1991; ”
Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: implications for university entrepreneurship policy (2012, neutral): “as reported by Shane (2001). University alumni and faculty data are from Roberts”
When do firms undertake R&D by investing in new ventures? (2003, background): “In industries with greater technological opportunities, entrepreneurs are more likely to identify valuable new inventions and, in the presence of these lucrative opportunities, start new ventures (Shane, 2001a).”
An Essay on the Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2007, background): “Much in the way that some, but not all, individuals may recognize a given opportunity based on their idiosyncratic prior knowledge and experiences ( Shane, 2001 ), whether or not the firms search routines ‘‘find’’ any new routines of merit depends on the routines already in existence and use within ”
Market Value and Patent Citations: A First Look (2000, neutral): “With respect to university patents, Shane (1999a, 1999b) …nds that more highly cited M.I.T. patents are more likely to be successfully licensed, and also more likely to form the basis of starting a new …rm. Sampat (1998) and Ziedonis (1998) explore the relationship between citations and licensing…”
When do incumbents learn from entrepreneurial ventures?: Corporate venture capital and investing firm innovation rates (2005, background): “23 To the extent that entrepreneurial startups may be a valuable source of innovations (Aghion and Tirole, 1994; Kortum and Lerner, 2000; Shane, 2001 ), CVC investors may be interested in learning from them.”
Improving patent valuations for management purposes--validating new indicators by analyzing application rationales (2004, background): “Tong and Frame (1992) were the first to use information from patent documents and make an attempt to compute what 6 See, however,Shane (2001)for the importance of patent scope for the analysis of firm creation.”
Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment (2010, methodology): “We chose to anchor our research on the well-documented context of technology transfer (Mowery et al. 2004; Shane 2001a, b) to control for dynamics that may be associated with different forms of opportunity in different situations and contexts.”
Science Parks’ tenants versus out-of-Park firms: who innovates more? A duration model (2008, background): “7 Sheehan (2001) finds response rates to oscillate between 21.”