Innovation Ecosystems

Innovation Ecosystems

Researchers at the Duke ISP Lab study how innovation ecosystems—the connected network of universities, startups, incumbent firms, investors, and government—shape the rate, direction, and diversity of technological progress. Our work traces how these ecosystems evolve over time; examines the institutions, relationships, and incentives that govern modern ecosystems; and develops new measurement tools to gauge the potential for accelerating their growth.

Innovation Ecosystems

2025

Chatterji, Aaron K. and Fiona Murray. “How Geopolitics Is Changing the Economics of Innovation.” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (forthcoming).

Azoulay, Pierre, Daniel P. Gross, and Bhaven N. Sampat. “Indirect Cost Recovery in US Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform.” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (forthcoming).

Masclans, Roger, Sharique Hasan, and Wesley M. Cohen. “Measuring the commercial potential of science.” Strategic Management Journal 46, no. 9 (2025): 2199-2236.

2024

Arora, Ashish, Andrea Fosfuri, and Thomas Rønde. “The missing middle: Value capture in the market for startups.” Research Policy 53, no. 3 (2024): 104958.

2023

Gross, Daniel P. and Bhaven N. Sampat. “America, jump-started: World War II R&D and the takeoff of the US innovation system.” American Economic Review 113, no. 12 (2023): 3323-3356.

2019

Arora, Ashish, Sharon Belenzon, and Andrea Patacconi. “A theory of the US innovation ecosystem: Evolution and the social value of diversity.” Industrial and Corporate Change 28, no. 2 (2019): 289-307

2018

Arora, Ashish, Sharon Belenzon, and Andrea Patacconi. “The decline of science in corporate R&D.” Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 3-32.

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