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The pursuit of ideas within innovative new ventures - an increasingly important path for commercialization - depends upon access to key resources such as risk capital, technical information, and individuals with commercialization expertise, but these inputs are highly concentrated geographically and socially. My research seeks to address how institutions and social-structural barriers shape ecosystems and the performance of entrepreneurial firms within them. To do so, I draw on theoretical insights from economics, sociology and management.

I leverage causal identification to bring persuasive evidence of the impact of changes to ecosystems on firms and individuals using a combination of natural and field experiments. My natural experiments leverage administrative data drawn from my engagement with entrepreneurship initiatives, allowing me to carefully measure the impact of specific institutions relative to other resources in the ecosystem. I have also employed large-scale field experiments that enroll large numbers of innovation-driven entrepreneurs and that are often embedded in the operations of existing programs and large corporations. My work sheds light on how to unlock the unrealized potential of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in a broad set of regions and how to enable individuals capable of innovation to pursue commercialization.

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Fehder, D., Hausman, N., Hochberg, Y. (forthcoming) Innovation and Capital: Evidence from the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 Journal of Financial Economics


2. Fehder, D., Teodoridis, F., Raffiee, J., Lu, J. (2024) The Partisanship of American Inventors Research Policy, 53(7)


3. Fehder, D (2024) Coming from a Good Pond: The Organizational Consequences of a New Venture’s Founding Ecosystem Administrative Science Quarterly, 69(1), 1-38


4. Raffiee, J, Teodoridis, F., Fehder, D (2023) Partisan Patent Examiners? Exploring the Link Between the Political Ideology of Patent Examiners and Patent Office Outcomes Research Policy, 52(9)


5. Miric, M, Yin, PL, Fehder, D (2023) Population-Level Evidence of The Gender Gap in Technology Entrepreneurship Strategy Science, 8(1), 62-84


6. Raffiee, J, Fehder, D, Teodoridis, F (2022) Revealing the Revealed Preferences of Public Firm Top Executives: New Data from Credit Card Spending and an Application to Firm Innovation Strategic Management Journal, 43(10) 2042-2065


7. Monteleone, P, Banerjee, S, Kothpalli, P, Stern, A, Fehder, D, Ginor, R, Vollmar, D, Fry, E, Pirwitz, M (2020) The Market Reacts Quickly: Changes in Paclitaxel Vascular Device Purchasing Within the Ascension Healthcare System Journal of Invasive Cardiology, 32(1) 18-24


8. Cohen, S, Fehder, D, Hochberg, Y, and Murray, F, (2019) The Design of Startup Accelerators Research Policy, 48, 1781-1797


9. Fehder, D, Porter, M and Stern, S (2019) Economic Institutions and Social Progress AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109, 350-356


10. Fehder, D, Porter, M and Stern, S (2018) The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance AEA Papers and Proceedings 108, 477-482


11. Fehder, D and Hochberg, Y (2015) Accelerators and Ecosystems Science, Vol. 348 No. 6240. Solicited


12. Fehder, D, Murray, F, and Stern, S (2014) Intellectual Property Rights and the Evolution of Scientific Journals as Knowledge Platforms International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 36, 83-94


13. Fehder, D, Nelling, E, and Trester, J (2009) Innovation and Price: The Case of Digital Cameras Applied Economics, Vol. 41 No. 17

Conference Proceedings

1. Lederman, O, Fehder, D, Morales, A, Murray, F, Pentland, A (2019) Communication Patterns and Performance in Early StartupsInternational Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)


2. Lederman, O Calacci, N, Fehder, D, Murray, F, and Pentland, A (2016) Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)

Manuscripts under Review (Available upon Request)

1. Fehder, D and Hochberg, Y, Spillover Effects of Startup Accelerator Programs: Evidence from Venture-Backed Startup Activity


2. Botelho, T, and Fehder, D. Hochberg, Y, Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship


3. Botelho, T, Fehder, D, Miric, M, Moving Forward or Falling Back: Gender Differences in Career Advancement for Former Entrepreneurs Re-Entering the Workforce