Browsing by Subject "Innovation"
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Criteria to assess potential reverse innovations: opportunities for shared learning between high- and low-income countries.
(Global Health, 2017-01-25)BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are developing novel approaches to healthcare that may be relevant to high-income countries (HICs). These include products, services, organizational processes, or policies ... -
Culture From Infrahumans to Humans: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
(2007-05-07)It has become increasingly common to explain the behavior of animals—from sperm whales to songbirds—in terms of culture. But what is animal culture, what is its relationship to other biological concepts and to human culture, ... -
Endogenous Growth and Property Rights over Renewable Resources
(2015)We study how different regimes of access rights to renewable natural resources – namely open access versus full property rights – affect sustainability, growth and welfare in the context of modern endogenous growth theory. ... -
Essays on Firm Innovation in Dynamic Product Markets: Examining Competitive Interactions During Technological Commercialization
(2018)How can firms gain competitive advantage from available technologies is a key question in strategy. In my dissertation, I develop new theory and provide evidence to show that a firm’s focus in selective technological areas ... -
Essays on Innovation, Competition and Regulation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2014)My dissertation explores the interactions between the various agents in the pharmaceutical industry and how they are affected by changes in health care policy. In my work, I examine innovation and competition among new ... -
Essays on Technological Change: Firm Organization, Problem Selection, and Diffusion
(2020)This dissertation investigates three aspects of technological change. In the first essay, I build on prior research that suggests new ventures are often more innovative than established firms. One unexplored reason for this ... -
Essays on the Determinants of Public Funding for Universities and the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate the implications and determinants of public funding for universities. The first chapter lays down the foundation for the other two studies. I discuss ... -
FAILURE-SPARKED INNOVATION: THE KEY TO ENSURING THE FUTURE OF LOCAL CHURCHES
(2021)Within the current cultural milieu of eclectic pluralism the Western Church currently finds itself in, innovation must be a central focus within all aspects of ministry in the Christian Church. With the focus that the local ... -
Faith by Design: Exploiting intersections between Acts and design thinking to cultivate the conditions for innovation in the local church as an expression of traditioned innovation
(2021)In 2021, congregational life in America feels troubled. The residue of vitality in vacant Sunday school classrooms, dated worship bulletins, antiquated committee structures, and worn pew cushions reminds churchgoers of the ... -
Frameworks for Planning Collaborative Supply Chain Programs
(2011)This dissertation is written in three progressively restrictive parts. Part I is a set of two expansive essays on collaborative supply chain management that proposes several new perspectives and interconnections between ... -
Innovation in the Blue Economy: Opportunities in Shipping, Aquaculture, and Offshore Wind for Climate Change Mitigation
(2021-04-30)As the world’s population continues to grow, increasing pressure will be placed on the ocean’s valuable resources. By 2030, nearly two-thirds of the fish on our plates will be farmed at sea; by 2040, global offshore wind ... -
Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs.
(J Health Econ, 2016-05)The research and development costs of 106 randomly selected new drugs were obtained from a survey of 10 pharmaceutical firms. These data were used to estimate the average pre-tax cost of new drug and biologics development. ... -
Innovation, Diffusion, and Regulation in Energy Technologies
(2017)The innovation and diffusion of new technologies is one of the central concerns of economics. New inventions or technological combinations do not spring fully formed into the world; as firms encounter and learn about new ... -
Inter-temporal Effect of Technological Capabilities on Firm Performance: a Longitudinal Study of the U.s. Computed Tomography Industry (1972-2002)
(2007-12-07)In this dissertation, I investigate how capabilities drive firm performance as an industry evolves. I show that in spite of significant research on firm capabilities, we do not understand whether technological capabilities ... -
Internal Capital, External Knowledge, and Random Draws: Three Drivers of Organizational Structure
(2016)This dissertation explores the complex interactions between organizational structure and the environment. In Chapter 1, I investigate the effect of financial development on the formation of European corporate groups. Since ... -
Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation in China: Six Recommendations to Shape the Future
(2017-11)In June, 2017, twenty-five university leaders and scholars gathered at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) to assess obstacles to and opportunities for China’s new LAS initiatives. Representing 20 different institutions, attendees ... -
Market entry, a vehicle for innovation?
(2011-04-19)This paper investigates whether market entrants exhibit more product innovation than incumbent firms, and whether a firm’s overall age in the industry relates to its propensity to innovate. Our study found that new entrants ... -
Market Valuation of Patent Characteristics
(2013-04-16)Measuring the returns to R&D has been an endeavor pursued by economists with vast interest in an effort to learn more about the characteristics of successful R&D. This paper empirically measures the market valuation of ... -
Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II
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Product Portfolio and Brand Extension Effects of Innovation: A Diversification Perspective on Innovation's Ability to Achieve New Value
(2010)Organizational researchers have long considered innovation a critical activity. While insightful regarding the nature of the innovation process and the rewards and risk associated with innovation, prior work has neglected ...
