Daniel F. Spulber’s research while affiliated with Northwestern University and other places

... The IIoT, an extension of the IoT focusing on industrial applications, aims at elevating manufacturing SMEs to new efficiency levels through innovative, interconnected industrial systems [5,27]. These systems facilitate global connectivity and ensure meaningful communication between devices, paving the way for intelligent artefacts that respond to user interactions and contribute to complex value creation processes [28]. ...

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Coopetition with the Industrial IoT: A Service-Dominant Logic Approach

... A large number of articles have highlighted that a potential solution could be to find new biomarkers. For clinical tractability, these should ideally be measurable in peripheral blood Thousands of potential biomarkers for cancer diagnosis have been proposed 4,5,19,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] . However, the clinical value of such biomarkers remains uncertain. ...

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Multiomics biomarkers were not superior to clinical variables for pan-cancer screening

... The challenge here is to approximate the total value an innovation creates over its lifetime. We rely on several estimates from the literature to assess the private value (Deng, 2007;Bessen, 2009;Gambardella et al., 2008) and spillovers created (Bloom et al., 2013;Zacchia, 2020;Myers and Lanahan, 2022;Arque-Castells and Spulber, 2022) by patented inventions. While the result of this exercise is subject to considerable uncertainty because value estimates in the literature do not agree well, the cost implied by the effect on innovation is large. ...

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Air pollution and innovation

... Merging railroads view mandated access as undesirable and typically reach negotiated access agreements with third parties to prevent a less-advantageous regulatory ruling or to head off costly legal action (Wilner, 1997, p. 228). Regulators also tread carefully in mandating access to avoid even the appearance of unfairly redistributing one railroad's rights to other carriers or to shippers (Sidak & Spulber, 1997). A poorly reasoned decision to mandate access may leave the government itself liable to litigation. ...

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Access protocols for railroads: Reframing the infrastructure separation debate

... As companies grow and become more globalized, companies might decide to import R&D from foreign providers. 2 This is a risky and costly strategy for the firm because outsourcing from foreign providers implies important organizational changes to instruct and monitor the foreign suppliers (Castellani & Pieri, 2013;Federico, 2010;Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg, 2012), to integrate foreign knowledge and, as Property Right Theory (PRT) suggests, to avoid potential holdup problems (Azoulay, 2004;Ulset, 1996;Wadhwa et al., 2017) and business stealing effects (Arqué-Castells & Spulber, 2019b). ...

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Organization of R&D outsourcing: Asymmetric cross‐effects between locations

... Liu, Gui, and Ran 2018). Recent research indicates that patent alliances' direct and indirect effects galvanise innovation within member companies and throughout their supply chains (Spulber 2019). Furthermore, these alliances enable members to tap into potential licensing revenues. ...

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Evolutionary game theory in patent alliance dynamics: strategy and policy implications Evolutionary game theory in patent alliance dynamics: strategy and policy implications

... As there are no costs associated with keeping accommodations listed on Airbnb and a significant portion of the supply comes from non-professional hosts, there is no incentive to remove these listings from the platform even if they are not offered or rented. This results in an apparent excess in supply that is ineffective in practice, as discussed by previous studies, both theoretically (Spulber, 2019) and empirically (Balasubramanian and Ragavan, 2019;Moreno-Izquierdo et al., 2020). ...

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How did COVID-19 affect tourism occupancy and prices? A spatiotemporal and economic analysis of Madrid and Valencia through Airbnb geospatial data

... The economic impact of the platform economy is substantial, with the market expected to reach $335 billion by 2025 and $600 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.08% [12,16]. This growth is fueled by ongoing digital transformation and the adoption of digital platforms in sectors such as retail, entertainment, transport, and finance [28]. However, entrepreneurs in platform economies face several challenges: access to capital where classical financing models often don't align well with the high growth potential of platforms [13]; talent acquisition and retention [1]; lack of mentorship and training as this can hinder the development of entrepreneurs in the platform economy [26]. ...

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The Role of Platform Economies in Contributing to Innovation and Entrepreneurship within Digital Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review

... World trade is impossible without standards because ''standards control access to virtually every market in global commerce and directly affect more than eighty per cent of world trade'' (Purcell & Kushnier, 2016). Many active standards organisations with thousands of members develop tens of thousands of standards every year that interact with the innovative decisions of most manufacturers (Baron & Spulber, 2018). How might standardisation still not be sufficiently known to the general public or even researchers? ...

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BRINGING STANDARDISATION CLOSER TO ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCHERS

... Second, the important issue in the interaction between standardization and technical R&D is the alignment of their technological and time requirements. Economic entities should consider not just market acceptance, but also the interests of SEP licensees while developing standards [101][102][103]. Third, standardization actors in developing countries could greatly strengthen international standards cooperation, make their standards benchmark with the world's best level, and utilize all their efforts to facilitate the "going abroad" of their standards to participate in international standard competitions [104,105]. ...

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Technical standardization and total factor productivity in innovation-driven development: Evidence from China