Best Paper Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award Winners

2024 Conference

Winner

Demand-Driven Innovation and Spillover Effects on Adjacent Technological Domains: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Technologies Jino Lu (University of Southern California)

Runner-Up

You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century US Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance Maria Roche (Harvard) and Astrid Marinoni (Georgia Tech)

2023 Conference

Winner

"Environmental Transparency and Value Appropriation from Innovation: Evidence from US Hydraulic Fracturing 2000–2020", by Shirley Tang

Runner-Up

"How Does Transparency Impact Technological Novelty? Evidence from Large Pharmaceutical Firms", by Hanu Tyagi

2022 Conference

Winner

Elena Plaksenkova “Ecosystem Evolution and Bottleneck Shifts: Evidence from The Evolution of the Anti-HIV Drug Ecosystem”

Co-Author: Olivier Chatain, HEC Paris

Runner-Up

Arvind Karunakaran “Anchored Inferences: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on the Introduction and Withdrawal of Complementary Products”

Co-Author: Joey Van Angeren

2021 Conference

Winner
Roy, Raja, Annadura, Mylswamy and Soumodip Sarkar, "Problemistic search for India's first lunar spacecraft".

2020 Conference

Winner
What are you look at? A competition network lens on new product innovation in enterprise software

Sruthi Thatchenkery and Riitta Katila

Runner-Up

None

2019 Conference

Winner
Christophe Combemale, Kate S. Whitefoot, Laurence Ales, and Erica R.H. Fuchs "Not all Technological Change is Equal: Disentangling Labor Deman Effects of Automation and Parts Consolidation"

Runner-up
Kyle Albert, Roman V. Galperin, and Aleksandra Kacperczyk "Occupational Licensure and Entrepreneurs: The Case of Tax Preparers in the U.S."

2018 Conference

Winner
Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy "Institutional Resilience and the Complementarity of Entrepreneurship and Guardianship in the Swiss Watchmaking Industry"

Runner-up
Yuna Lee, Paul Cleary, and Ingrid Nembhard "Fostering Implementation of Staff's Creative Ideas to Improve Patient Health Care Experiences"

2017 Conference

Winner
Jiamin Zhang and Andy Wu, "Entrepreneurial Access to market and Non-Market Resources: Chinese Venture Capital and High-Speed Rail"

Runner-up
Carla Costa and Rui Baptista, "Entrepreneurial Clusters and the Co-agglomeration of Related Industries"

2016 Conference

Winner
John Paul Helveston (CMU), Erica Fuchs (CMU), Yanmin Wang (Beijing Normal University) Valerie Karplus (MIT) "Up, Down, and Sideways: Innovation in China and the Case of Plug-in Electric Vehicles"

Runner-up
James Ostler, University of Michigan "Corrupt Business Practices as a Market Entry Strategy"