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Demand as a source of entry and the survival of new semiconductor firms

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  • Roberto Fontana
  • Franco Malerba

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The performance of new companies coming from the demand side of the semiconductor industry is examined and compared with the performance of entrants coming from the semiconductor industry itself and with other types of entrants. By using a dataset of more than 1000 start-ups founded between 1997 and 2007 around the world, the article shows that start-ups with a background in application sectors survive longer than spin-offs from the semiconductor industry itself or than inexperienced firms founded by people previously active in university or other industries. These results point strongly to the major role of demand not just as a source of innovations, but also as a major driver of entry into an industry and of successful performance of new firms. Copyright 2010 The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

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  • Roberto Fontana & Franco Malerba, 2010. "Demand as a source of entry and the survival of new semiconductor firms," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 19(5), pages 1629-1654, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:19:y:2010:i:5:p:1629-1654
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    1. Antonelli Cristiano & Gehringer Agnieszka, 2013. "Demand pull and technological flows within innovation systems: the intra-European evidence," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201303, University of Turin.
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    4. Adams, Pamela & Fontana, Roberto & Malerba, Franco, 2013. "The magnitude of innovation by demand in a sectoral system: The role of industrial users in semiconductors," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 1-14.
    5. Flavio Calvino & Chiara Criscuolo & Carlo Menon, 2018. "A cross-country analysis of start-up employment dynamics," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(4), pages 677-698.
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    7. Triulzi, G., 2014. "Technology life cycle and specialization patterns of latecomer countries: The case of the semiconductor industry," MERIT Working Papers 2014-012, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
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    10. Lalit Manral, 2015. "The demand-side dynamics of entrant heterogeneity," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 401-445, April.
    11. Roberto Fontana & Franco Malerba & Astrid Marinoni, 2016. "Pre-entry experience, technological complementarities, and the survival of de-novo entrants. Evidence from the US telecommunications industry," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 573-593, September.
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