The Implications of Economic Incentives & Institutions for Innovation & Market Emergence

Abstract

The symposium features four papers that examine how institutions shape the nature of economic exchange for technologies, firms, industries, and nations. The four papers use diverse theoretical frameworks, methodologies, levels of analysis spanning the empirical contexts of post-WWII U.S. innovation ecosystem, graphene, U.S. data centers, and global mobile money. Together, they address an interesting set of questions and advance our knowledge about how variation in the presence, attributes, and nature of various institutions shape incentives associated with innovation and market emergence, and consequently yield insights for better understanding industrial innovation trajectories, firm performance, and market entry patterns. The symposium will be of interest to scholars of technology and innovation management (TIM) and strategic management (STR). Knowledge Shocks & Industrial Spillovers - Evidence from Operation Paperclip, 1945-1970 Presenter: Jeffrey Furman; Boston U. Presenter: Martin Watzinger; Ludwig Maximilian U. of Munich (LMU) Does Science Enable? Evidence from the Nascent Enabling Technology Graphene Presenter: Anavir Shermon; Kenan-Flagler Business School, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Where the Cloud Rests - The Economic Geography of Data Centers Presenter: Shane Greenstein; Harvard Business School Presenter: Tommy Pan Fang; Harvard U. Firm Strategies to Facilitate Market Emergence Across Diverse Regulatory Environments Presenter: Audra Wormald; Robert H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland Discussion Presenter: Francisco Polidoro; U. of Texas at Austin