Network Law Review, Winter 2014ISSN 3050-452X
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Article
“Disruptive innovation”: statistical comparison between cases and scholarly papers
- a Associate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Faculty Affiliate, Stanford CodeX
Article info
- Published
- 3 March 2014
- Issue
- Winter 2014
- Cite as
- Schrepel, T. (2014, Winter). “Disruptive innovation”: statistical comparison between cases and scholarly papers. Network Law Review. https://
www .networklawreview .org/ disruptive-innovation-statistical-comparison-between-cases-and-scholar-papers/
This post is from our new series dedicated to statistical analyses of antitrust law. We called it: “Let’s Stat”.
Methodology:
We entered the keywords “disruptive innovation” and “antitrust” on the WestLawNext search engine.
Comments:
- Here’s a great definition of what a “disruptive innovation” is, by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School professor): link. In few words, it is “an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology”.
- This graphic tends to show that judges don’t attach importance to the quality of the innovation, while academics do (more and more).
- WestLawNext does not gather all scholarly papers. However, we presume that WestLawNext papers are a representative sample of all papers written on the subject.