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First-mover advantages from pioneering new markets: Comment

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  1. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

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[Editor's Note: The following two Comments were written to accompany the Robinsonet al. paper on First Movers (thisReview, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1994). Because of editorial problems, they appear separately here.]

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Scherer, F.M. First-mover advantages from pioneering new markets: Comment. Rev Ind Organ 9, 173–176 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01035656

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