Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition and innovation. It uses the radical policy … competition and patenting. It then develops an endogenousm growth model with step-by-step innovation that can deliver this … inverted-U pattern.In this model, competition has an ambiguous effect on innovation. On the one hand, it discourages laggard …