Innovative Activity and Organizational Choice of Entrepreneurial Firms

创业企业的创新活动与组织选择

• 批准号: 0823319
• 负责人: Gordon Phillips
• 金额: $ 34.93万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovative; Activity; Organizational; Choice; Entrepreneurial

When and why do entrepreneurial firms choose particular entry or exit strategies? Why do some go to market independently while others form joint ventures or merge with larger firms? What is the impact of these choices on their profitability, growth and competitiveness? In this study, researchers will compile information from a number of dispersed sources to examine these sorts of questions. The design of the study emphasizes (i) entrepreneurial firms' current core technological competencies and the relation of these competencies to industry competitors', (ii) the relative importance of patents, secrecy, and complementary assets, and (iii) industry life cycle stages and capital availability. In addition to examining choices about entry structures, the research team will examine how entrepreneurial growth and profitability are related to these types of underlying conditions. In particular, they will examine the importance of research, and the development of that research, in determining the boundaries of the firm. The study involves complilation of three different measures of innovative activity: patent activity, patent citations, and research and development expenditures. It also involves use of new measures of organizational relatedness. The resulting new and comprehensive data set will be available as a research resource for subsequent researchers. This data set will enable researchers to explore a number of questions related to innovative and commercial activities of small entrepreneurial firms and large incumbents, both public and private.

创业型企业何时以及为何选择特定的进入或退出战略？ 为什么有些公司独立上市，而另一些公司则成立合资企业或与大公司合并？这些选择对其盈利能力、增长和竞争力有何影响？在这项研究中，研究人员将从许多分散的来源收集信息，以检查这些问题。研究的设计强调：（一）创业型企业当前的核心技术能力以及这些能力与行业竞争对手的关系;（二）专利、保密和补充资产的相对重要性;（三）行业生命周期阶段和资本可用性。除了研究进入结构的选择，研究小组还将研究创业增长和盈利能力如何与这些类型的基本条件相关。特别是，他们将研究的重要性，以及研究的发展，在确定公司的边界。 这项研究涉及三个不同的措施的创新活动：专利活动，专利引用，研究和开发支出的汇编。它还涉及使用组织关联性的新措施。由此产生的新的综合数据集将作为研究资源供以后的研究人员使用。这一数据集将使研究人员能够探索与小型创业公司和大型现有公共和私营企业的创新和商业活动有关的一些问题。