Corporate Venturing and the Rent Cycle
Document Type
Article
Department
Drucker School of Management (CGU)
Publication Date
2005
Disciplines
Business | Marketing
Abstract
This study views entrepreneurial rents as renewable opportunities and explores how firms can effectively utilize corporate venturing to create and sustain economic rents. Schumpeterian entrepreneurs create rents by harnessing corporate venturing to exploit attractive economic opportunities. The Schumpeterian rent is composed of Ricardian and Austrian rents. Ricardian rents result from unique and non-reproducible characteristics or competencies of the firm, and hence, are not appropriable by imitators. Conversely, Austrian rents, or economic profit, are subject to dissipation by imitators and attract entry by competitors or Austrian entrepreneurs until they are bid to zero or destroyed by another Schumpeterian innovation. In this formulation, Austrian entrepreneurs are modeled as infra-marginal rent seekers. Consequently, to sustain rents, firms must cycle between using corporate venturing to create or discover Schumpeterian entrepreneurial opportunities and using venturing as a mechanism to exploit existing rent generating opportunities.
Rights Information
© 2004 Elsevier Ltd.
DOI
10.1016/j.technovation.2004.10.006
Recommended Citation
Jenny Darroch, Morgan P. Miles, Chris W. Paul, Corporate venturing and the rent cycle, Technovation, Volume 25, Issue 12, December 2005, Pages 1437-1442, ISSN 0166-4972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2004.10.006. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497204001853)
