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Compose a paper 4-5 pages of length, not including a cover page and a references page with the title: 

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Based on your required article readings, further research of sources you may conduct, as well as your experience, please compose a paper with the title:  Are the effects of innovation on strategy industry-dependent?

Your paper should address the topic by integrating information from multiple sources. You are definitely allowed to also express your opinions, as long as you support them with references The paper should be 4-5 pages of length, not including a cover page and a references page You should use APA format, Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced, with 1-inch page margins You should post it by midnight of Sunday PST of the current week.


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Please download and review in detail the articles denoted with three stars below (***) If you have time, you may review the other two papers.

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Arrow, K.J. 1962. Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention. The Rand Corporation.

Audretsch, David B., Feldman, Maryann P. (1996) “R&D spillovers and the geography of innovation and production”, American Economic Review, 86(3), pp. 630-640

*** Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua Graff Zivin, Jialan Wang (2010) “Superstar Extinction”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2), pp. 549-589 15

*** Baldwin, Carliss Y. and Von Hippel, Eric A. (2011). “Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation” Organization Science, 22(6): 1399-1417.

Boudreau, K., Lacetera, N., & Lakhani, K. 2011. Incentives and problem uncertainty in innovation contests. Management Science, 57: 843-863. .

Brynjolfsson, E., & Hitt, L. (1996). Paradox lost? Firm-level evidence on the returns to information systems spending. Management science, 42(4), 541-558.

Cohen, W.M. and Levinthal, D.A. 1990. Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35 (1): 128-152

Forman, C., Goldfarb, A., & Greenstein, S. (2005). How did location affect adoption of the commercial Internet? Global village vs. urban leadership. Journal of urban Economics, 58(3), 389-420.

Furman, Jeff and Stern, Scott (2011) “Climbing atop the shoulders of giants: The impact of institutions on cumulative research”, American Economic Review, 101(5), pp. 1933-1963

*** Gans, J.S. and Stern, S. 2003. The product market and the market for “ideas”: Commercialization strategies for technology entrepreneurs. Research Policy, 32: 333-350

Griliches, Zvi (1998) “The search for R&D spillovers” (Chapter 11) in R&D and Productivity: The Econometric Evidence, University of Chicago Press, pp. 251-268.

Katz, M. L. & Shapiro, C. (1986). Technology adoption in the presence of network externalities. The Journal of Political Economy, 94(4).

Romer, P. M. (1990). Endogenous technological change. Journal of Political Economy, 98(S5).

*** Singh, J., Fleming, L. (2010) “Lone inventors as sources of technological breakthroughs: Myth or reality?” Management Science, 56(1), pp. 41-56.

Stokes, D. E. (1997) “Pasteurs’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation” (Chapters 1 and 3), Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C. pp. 1-89.

Tushman, M.L. and Anderson, P. 1986. Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1: 439-465.

View

The art of innovation

An outstanding TEDxBerkley presentation by Guy Kawasaki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtjatz9r-Vc (Links to an external site.)


Webinar: Innovation Strategy & Portfolio Management

An insightful analysis of the links between innovation and strategy, by well-known industry leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EKR5limhro (Links to an external site.)