Does competitive pressure foster innovation? Technical progress consists of numerous small improvements made upon the … existing technology continuous improvement and innovative activities aiming at entirely new technology (discrete innovation …). Continuous improvement is often of limited relevance to the new technology invented by successful discrete innovation. By …

literature mentioned above, to the best of our knowledge, no papers made a distinction between discrete innovation and continuous …IZA DP No. 3132 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh Takao Kato Hodaka … Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh University of New South Wales …