Ashish Arora
· Duke University Professor of StrategyDuke University · Accounting
Active 1991–2025
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Research topics
- Business
- Economics
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Social Science
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Industrial organization
- Political Science
- Marketing
Selected publications
Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research
American Economic Review · 2021 · 310 citations
1st authorCorrespondingUsing data on 800,000 corporate publications and patent citations to these publications between 1980 and 2015, we study how corporate investment in research is linked to its use in the firm’s inventions, and to spillovers to rivals. We find that private returns to corporate research depend on the balance between two opposing forces: the benefits from the use of science in own downstream inventions, and the costs of spillovers to rivals. Consistent with this, firms produce more research when it i…
Research Policy · 2021 · 98 citations
1st authorCorrespondingFirst-mover advantage and the private value of public science
Research Policy · 2023 · 58 citations
1st authorCorrespondingInvention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage
Research Policy · 2022-10-29 · 51 citations
article1st authorInvention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2022-07-06 · 47 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingDo large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that discriminates between the two explanations. Using a sample of 3,110 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises with size,…
Frequent coauthors
- 89 shared
Andréa Fosfuri
Bocconi University
- 85 shared
Sharon Belenzon
- 78 shared
Wesley M. Cohen
- 64 shared
Alfonso Gambardella
Bocconi University
- 52 shared
John P. Walsh
Georgia Institute of Technology
- 37 shared
Thomas Roende
Copenhagen Business School
- 36 shared
Jungkyu Suh
New York University
- 25 shared
Anand Nandkumar
Education
- 2002
Ph.D., Business Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1998
Other, Business Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1996
B.S., Business Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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