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Investor Attention and Technology Salience: Does Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value?

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  • Koski, Heli
  • Luukkonen, Juha

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This paper empirically analyzes how markets value personal data related innovation in four prominent domains, in which firms’ potential to exploit value from data is identified to be considerable: finance, health, location-based services and artificial intelligence. We link the innovation economics literature to psychology-grounded financial economics theories of investor attention and salience theory. Our data from 117 large technology companies active in the ICT sector from the years 2007–2014 suggest that firms’ personal data related innovations and knowledge stocks in technology domains of location-based services and artificial intelligence contributed substantially to firm value. The premiums gained from personal data related innovation were particularly significant for data giants holding knowledge stocks in the location-based service domain. Our empirical results indicate that a strong positive relationship between personal data related knowledge stocks of the location-based services domain and firm value relates primarily to investor attention intensified during periods of media hype. Our data provide new insights into the market valuation of intangible assets: investors seem to overweight more salient right tails of firms’ knowledge stocks of emerging technologies while neglecting salient left tails.

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  • Koski, Heli & Luukkonen, Juha, 2018. "Investor Attention and Technology Salience: Does Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value?," ETLA Working Papers 59, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    • Handle: RePEc:rif:wpaper:59
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    1. Koski, Heli & Pantzar, Mika, 2019. "Data Markets in Making: The Role of Technology Giants," ETLA Working Papers 72, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.

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    Keywords

    Firm value; Innovation; Personal data; Investor attention; Saliency theory; Technology salience;
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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