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SUMMARY:Entrepreneurs (Co-)Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technolo
 gy Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Maria Roche (Georgia Tech / HBS)\nMaria Roche (Georgia Tech / 
 HBS)\n"Entrepreneurs (Co-)Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technolog
 y Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes" (video)\nDiscussant: Bill Ker
 r (HBS)\n\nAbstract\nEntrepreneurs learn from a variety of sources. One pa
 rticularly important channel is learning from fellow entrepreneurs. In thi
 s paper\, we examine the influence of physical proximity on technology ado
 ption decisions and subsequent startup performance outcomes at one of the 
 largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. To deal with endo
 genous geographic clustering\, we rely on the random assignment of office 
 space to the hub’s 251 startups. Using floor plans to measure geographic
  distances\, we find that proximity greatly influences the likelihood of a
 dopting an upstream technology also used by a peer firm. This effect quick
 ly decays with distance where startups that are more than 20 meters apart 
 no longer influence each other. Our results suggest that other social\, in
 formational\, and competition-based dimensions alter the effect of distanc
 e and that peer interaction is a viable mechanism driving our results.\n\n
 EPFL Virtual Innovation Seminar\nEVIS is a bi-weekly virtual seminar serie
 s focusing on Science\, Technology and Innovation topics studied through t
 he lens of Economics\, Entrepreneurship\, Strategy and Finance.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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