Essays on public funding for private innovation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Despite the significant annual expenditure of public (government) research and development (R& D) funding allocated to private, for-profit firms, research is unclear as to if whether or not public funding is positively associated with firm performance. To partially address this gap, in three essays I examine the most common funding tie between public organizations and private firms in the U.S. - public-private R& D relationships. In the first two essays, I conceptualize public-private R& D relationships as institutional hybrids and argue and show that relative to technologies developed without a public-sector partner, the institutional conflict underlying public-private R& D relationships is positively related to the creation of valuable and destabilizing technologies. To provide support for my institutional hybrids' hypotheses, I employ a novel machine learning-matching method to examine all patented technologies in the U.S. between the years 1982-2012. In the final essay, I focus on technology ventures (i.e., start-ups) that form a contractual R& D relationship with a public-consumer (e.g., NASA, DoD) and show that these start-ups produce technologies faster and survive longer than their non-contracted peers. However, due to the stabilizing dependencies inherent in public-consumer relationships, these ventures also experience slower growth. I conclude with management and policy implications.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Rathje, Jason |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Katila, Riitta |
| Thesis advisor | Katila, Riitta |
| Thesis advisor | Byers, Thomas (Thomas H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Eesley, Charles |
| Thesis advisor | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
| Degree committee member | Byers, Thomas (Thomas H.) |
| Degree committee member | Eesley, Charles |
| Degree committee member | Eisenhardt, Kathleen M |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jason M. Rathje. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Jason Rathje
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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