Matt Marx

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WORKING PAPERS

“Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Supply of Inventors.” (with Ben Balsmeier, Lee Fleming, and Ryan Shin)
"Funding Black High-growth Startups" (with Emmanuel Yimfor and Lisa Cook)
"Cassatts in the Attic" (with Marlene Koffi)
"Employer Failure and Employee Careers: Evidence From the US Census and an Innovation-Driven Industry" (with Tristan Botelho)
“Minimum Viable Signal? Entrepreneurial Finance, Race, and Organizational Response to Normative Pressures.” (with Emmanuel Yimfor and Qian Wang).
“Firm Age and Great Invention: a new Public Access Dataset” (with Michael Ewens)
"Revisiting the Anti-Commons Effect: Evidence from an Open Dataset of Patent-Paper Pairs" (with Emma Scharfmann)
"Scientists Invent Better Patents, and Inventors Publish Better Science" (with Lee Fleming and Emma Scharfmann)
“The Changing Role of Scientific Discovery in VC-backed startups in the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem.” (with Lisa Sheer and Honggi Lee)
“Field-Specific Investments in Human Capital & Path Dependence in Early Career Choices: Field Experimental Evidence from Engineering.” (with Kevin Boudreau)

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

“When does patent protection spur cumulative research within firms? (with Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Dror Shvadron). Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2023
“Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Science: Evidence from “Twin” Discoveries.” (with David Hsu). Management Science, 2022
“Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship.” Organization Science, 2022
“Reliance on Science by Inventors: Hybrid Extraction of In-text Patent-to-Article Citations.” (with Aaron Fuegi) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2022
“The Location of Academic Institutions and Knowledge Flow to Industry: Evidence from Simultaneous Discoveries.” (with Michael Bikard) Management Science, 2020
“Reliance on Science in Patenting: USPTO Front-Page Citations to Scientific Articles.” (with Aaron Fuegi). Strategic Management Journal, 2020
“Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation.” (with Lee Fleming, Hilary Greene, Dennis Yao, and Guan-Cheng Li) Science, 2019
“Founder Replacement and Startup Performance.” (with Michael Ewens) Review of Financial Studies, 2018
“Hiring Molecules, Not Atoms: Comobility and Wages.” (with Bram Timmermans) Organization Science, 2017
“Revisiting the Small-Firm Effect on Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Firm Dissolutions.” (with Olenka Kacperczyk) Organization Science, 2016
“The Value of Employee Retention: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” (with Ken Younge) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2016
“Regional Disadvantage? Employee Non-compete Agreements and Brain Drain.” (with Lee Fleming and Jasjit Singh) Research Policy, 2015
“Strategic ‘Switchbacks’: Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs.” (with David Hsu) Research Policy, 2015
“Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry.” (with David Hsu and Joshua Gans) Management Science, 2014
“Geographic Constraints on Knowledge Diffusion: Political Borders vs. Spatial Proximity.” (with Jasjit Singh) Management Science, 2013
“The Firm Strikes Back: Non-Compete Agreements and the Mobility of Technical Professionals.” American Sociological Review, 2011
“Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-compete Experiment.” (with Lee Fleming and Debbie Strumsky) Management Science, 2009
“Managing Inventive Creativity in Small Worlds.” (with Lee Fleming) California Management Review, 2007