towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between innovation, competition and distance to the technology … product innovations. Secondly, there is evidence that innovation and competition are more positively correlated at low levels … positively correlated with product innovation when a firm is more advanced than its main competitor. In other cases, this …