Organizational Settings and Applied Research

1. Which organizational type is suited to which type of project? (with Ivanka Visnjic and Julian Birkinshaw)

Status: working paper in preparation for submission

We study biotechnology based drug development across academic, entrepreneurial and established organizations. We decompose a project into different dimensions of technological and market application novelty and find that while all organizations pursue all types of projects, they succeed only in those that fit their particular business model. 

2. How does an organization´s research change after commercial success?  (with Ivanka Visnjic)

Status: working paper

We find that after commercial success, as entrepreneurial organizations shift towards becoming established, they focus more towards novel market applications. However, they still remain close to the technological frontier suggesting a potential "best of both worlds" period where organizations remain on the cutting edge on both market and technology novelty.

Route to Market

1. 1.  Uncovering Applications on the Route  (with Ivanka Visnjic)

Status: working paper

We study the entire drug development pipeline from discovery to launch of over 100,000 projects and find that drugs with a new mechanism of action or those engineered through biotechnology tend to be tested for more diseases on average. We unpack the role of different organizational settings at different stages of development in uncovering new market applications

1. 2. Do non solutions struggle more for legitimacy?

Status: early stage working paper

An in depth historical case study of the legendary mathematicians Evariste Galois and Niels Henrik Abel and each of their struggles to convince the Mathematical world of the insolubility of  quintic polynomial.