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Scott Stern

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

School of Management Distinguished Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management

Cambridge, MA 02142

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1.

Is There a Market for Ideas?

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Citation 11

Is There a Market for Ideas?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2009
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 11

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ideas market, intellectual property, market design, repugnance, appropriation

Is There a Market for Ideas?

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 805-837, 2010
Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Joshua S. Gans, Fiona Murray and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 4

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disclosure, science, academic freedom, publication, secrecy, cumulative knowledge, intellectual property protection

Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

NBER Working Paper No. w19560
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Oct 2013
Joshua S. Gans, Fiona Murray and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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The Product Market and the Market for 'Ideas': Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jul 2002
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 677 (21,385)
Citation 72

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commercialization, start-up, entrepreneurs, innovation strategy, ideas market

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Clusters and Entrepreneurship

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Citation 15

Clusters and Entrepreneurship

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-10-31
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2015
Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Independent, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 615 (34,359)
Citation 15

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Entrepreneurship, Industry Clusters, Dynamic Economies of Agglomeration

Clusters and Entrepreneurship

Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 495-518, 2010
Posted: 22 Feb 2012
Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Independent, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Entrepreneurship, Industry Clusters, Dynamic Economies of Agglomeration

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Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction

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Citation 63

Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction

University of Melbourne Working Paper No. 17
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Feb 1998 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 479 (47,533)
Citation 63

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Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 485-511, 2000
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Sep 2012
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 63
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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

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Citation 10

Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 10-34
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Independent, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 396 (60,243)
Citation 10

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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w18250
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Independent, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 10

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

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Citation 40

The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 02 May 2013
Joshua S. Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 343 (71,410)
Citation 40

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patents, intellectual property, licensing, commercialization, market for ideas, innovation, entrepreneurship

The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

NBER Working Paper No. w13234
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Joshua S. Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 40

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

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Citation 81

The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

NBER Working Paper No. w7876
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Sep 2000
Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
Downloads 320 (77,377)
Citation 81

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Posted: 29 Aug 2001
Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy

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The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda for NSF

American Economic Association, Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF's Call for Long-Term Research Agendas
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Shane M. Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 271 (57,275)
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Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

NBER Working Paper No. w14819
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Mar 2009
Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center, College de France and London School of Economics and Political Science, Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Harvard University - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output

NBER Working Paper No. w7891
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 136 (170,560)
Citation 18

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When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

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Citation 103

When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

NBER Working Paper No. w7851
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Aug 2000
Joshua S. Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 128 (187,993)
Citation 103

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When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 2002
Posted: 28 Oct 2002
Joshua S. Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigns Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Scott Stern, Joshua S. Gans and David H. Hsu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Management Department

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Startups, Intellectual property, Venture capital, Commercialization, Market strategies, Cooperation, Market competition

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Disclosure or Secrecy? The Economics of Open Science

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Jul 2007
Arijit Mukherjee and Scott Stern
Michigan State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 112 (181,735)
Citation 11

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Open Science, Pasteur's Quadrant

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Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Examiner Characteristics

NBER Working Paper No. w8980
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jun 2002
Iain M. Cockburn, Samuel S. Kortum and Scott Stern
Boston University Questrom School of Business, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 11

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The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery: Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research

NBER Working Paper No. w7359
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2012
Iain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson and Scott Stern
Boston University Questrom School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 86 (247,981)
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Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking

NBER Working Paper No. w6851
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 31 Jan 1999 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Downloads 86 (237,475)
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Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-Commons Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w11465
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Aug 2005
Scott Stern and Fiona Murray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center
Downloads 85 (230,994)
Citation 65

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Balancing Incentives: the Tension between Basic and Applied Research

NBER Working Paper No. w6882
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 May 1999
Iain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson and Scott Stern
Boston University Questrom School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Endogenous Appropriability

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Endogenous Appropriability

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2898472
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Jan 2017
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 70 (283,191)

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Control, Execution, Appropriability, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Minimum Viable Product

Endogenous Appropriability

NBER Working Paper No. w23138
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Feb 2017
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w13235
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2015
Sharon Novak and Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 67 (265,270)
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An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design

NBER Working Paper No. w6600
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Jul 2000
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit?: Evidence from the Sbir Program

NBER Working Paper No. w7877
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 01 Sep 2000
Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 65 (291,570)
Citation 11

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The Determinants of National Competitiveness

NBER Working Paper No. w18249
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Mercedes Delgado, Christian H.M. Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Independent, Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 60 (257,358)

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Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: an Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation

NBER Working Paper No. w6890
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Apr 1999
Paul B. Ellickson, Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg
University of Rochester - Simon Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Downloads 57 (306,254)
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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

NBER Working Paper No. w5726
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2010
Timothy Bresnahan, Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Downloads 56 (296,223)
Citation 54

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Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

NBER Working Paper No. w7410
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Feb 2000
Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 85

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Finding the Endless Frontier: Lessons from the Life Sciences Innovation System for Technology Policy

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 1, 2010
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Jan 2013
Iain M. Cockburn and Scott Stern
Boston University Questrom School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

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Citation 1

The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w7887
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 42 (362,907)
Citation 1

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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

Posted: 11 Aug 2001
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, Autumn 2002
Posted: 23 Sep 2002
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Defining Clusters of Related Industries

NBER Working Paper No. w20375
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Aug 2014
Mercedes Delgado, Scott Stern and Michael E. Porter
Independent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard University - Strategy Unit
Downloads 40 (349,620)

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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

NBER Working Paper No. w12523
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2010
Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 37 (352,852)
Citation 21

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Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions: Evidence from Automobile Product Development

NBER Working Paper No. w13232
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Sharon Novak and Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 35 (369,820)
Citation 21

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The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services

NBER Working Paper No. w6595
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Jun 2000
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 29 (388,473)

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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w20954
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Feb 2015
Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Students and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows

NBER Working Paper No. w19755
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Dec 2013
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 3 (501,380)

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Control versus Execution: Endogenous Appropriability and Entrepreneurial Strategy

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Apr 2017
Kenny Ching, Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern
University College London - Department of Management Science and Innovation, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 0 (220,186)

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control, execution, uncertainty, appropriability, intellectual property protection, commercialization

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Foundations of Entrepreneurial Strategy

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Sep 2016
Joshua S. Gans, Scott Stern and Jane Wu
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 0 (23,663)

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entrepreneurship, commercialization, intellectual property, uncertainty, strategy

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The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 16-141
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 24 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2017
Fiona M. Scott Morton, Ariel Dora Stern and Scott Stern
Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 0 (172,489)

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Biologics, Biosimilars, Drug Spending, Procurement Policy

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The State of American Entrepreneurship: New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 Us States, 1988-2014

NBER Working Paper No. w22095
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 21 Mar 2016
Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Students and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complementarity in Organizational Design

Posted: 09 Jun 1997
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the late 1980s

RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol. 27, No. 0, Special Issue
Posted: 19 Feb 1997
Timothy Bresnahan, Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics

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