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Visitors to this page might also be interested in my [[Job Market Applications|job market applications]] page, [[Job Market Paper|job market paper]] page, research [[Papers|papers]] page, [[Research Statement|research statement]] page (which contains summaries of some of my research papers), [[Projects|projects]] page (which details work that is not yet ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals), and [[Teaching Statement|teaching statement]] page. [[Image:Ed_5cm_by_6cm.jpg‎|right|200px190px|Edward J. Egan]]

Ed's [[Research Statement|research areas ]] are the '''financing of entrepreneurship''' and the '''economics of innovation'''. His work consists primarily in the application of industrial organization economics and corporate finance to entrepreneurship and business strategy. Ed's specialty is the use of micro-data in large scale empirical analysis, however, his work also often contains useful theoretical innovation.  An [[Media:EdEgan_-_CurriculumVitae.pdf|Academic Curriculum Vitae]] for Ed Egan is available in pdf format.

Ed's [[Job Market Paper|job market paper]], ''How Start-up Firms Innovate'', proposes a `system vs. components' theory of innovation to understand the relationship between inventive activity and commercialization investment choices for patent-holding high-technology start-up firms. He tests the theory using cross-sectional analyses and a difference-in-difference analysis on near-population data of patent-holding start-up firms that secured either an initial public offering or an acquisition between 1986 and 2004. The theory requires that entrepreneurs maximize their expected profits given both the available technological opportunity and the state of technology in their industry. Start-up firms should specialize to pit their strengths against incumbents' weaknesses or generalize to best incumbents on every dimension. Moreover, policy that affects commercialization investment choices should also affect research and development choices, and vice versa. Ed shows that following the introduction of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which raised the costs of an initial public offering, start-up firms preferred to specialize in component-based invention rather than developing competitive systems.

==Selected [[Papers]]==

*Egan, Edward J. (2013), ''How Start-up Firms Innovate: Technology Strategy, Commercialization Strategy, and their Relationship'', Job Market Paper.([[Job Market Paper|wikipage]],[[Media:Egan_(2013)_-_How_Startups_Innovate_(Job_Market_Paper).pdf|pdf]])*Egan, Edward J. (2013), ''Venture Capitalists as Vendors of Complementary Components'', Job Market Companion Paper. ([[Job Market Paper|wikipage]])*Brander, James A. and Edward J. Egan (2013), ''Investor Expectations and the Role of Venture Capitalists in Acquisitions'', University of British Columbia, Working Paper. Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Administrative Science Association of Canada, Banff, Alberta (June ‘06).([[Brander Egan (2007) - The Role of VCs in Acquisitions|wikipage]],[[Media:Brander_Egan_(2012)_-_Investor_Expectations_and_the_Role_of_Venture_Capitalists_in_Acquisitions.pdf | pdf]])*Egan, Edward J. and David J. Teece (2013), ''Patent Thickets: Taxonomy, Theory, Tests, and Policy'', U.C. Berkeley Working Paper.([[Patent Thicket Literature Review|wikipage]],[[Media:Egan_Teece_(2013)_-_Patent_Thickets_Theory_Taxonomy_Tests_and_Policy.pdf|pdf]])*Brander, James A., Edward J. Egan and Louisa Yeung (2013), ''Estimating the Effects of Age on NHL Player Performance'', Revise and resubmit to the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports ([[Winner's Curse |wikipage]],[[Media:Brander_Egan_Yeung_(2013)_-_Estimating_the_Effects_of_Age_on_NHL_Player_Performance.pdf| pdf]])*Brander, James A., Edward J. Egan, and Thomas F. Hellmann (2010), ''Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence'', in "International Differences In Entrepreneurship", J. Lerner and A. Schoar, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. ([[Brander Egan Hellmann (2010) - Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital|wikipage]],[[Media:Brander_Egan_Hellmann_(2010)_-_Government_Sponsored_versus_Private_Venture_Capital.pdf|pdf]] )

==[[TeachingStatement|Teaching]]==