We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation in 1950’s Britain eventhough many economists and policymakers accepted it at the time. Pricefixingagreements were very widespread prior to the 1956 RestrictivePractices Act and...

Research has shown that idea competitions are apromising approach for integrating customers intoopen innovation activities. Furthermore research onopen innovation shows that most innovations are theresult of intensive collaboration processes in whichmany individuals contribute according to...

Im internationalen Vergleich liegt die Innovationstätigkeitvon deutschen Softwareunternehmen nicht auf Spitzenniveau. Arbeitsforschungkann hier als wichtiger Innovationstreiber fungieren. Im folgendenBeitrag wird als Beispiel hierfür das Forschungsprojekt...

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements andmodifications made upon the existing...

Die interaktive Wertschöpfung hybrider Leistungen erfreut sich wachsender Verbreitung undBedeutung. Für Unternehmen birgt sie als Grundlage nachhaltiger Innovationsstrategiendarüber hinaus besonderes ökonomisches Potential, da eine erfolgreiche Implementierungüber inkrementelle...

We show the effects of Bertrand and Cournot competition on R&D investmentand social welfare in a duopoly with R&D competition where success in R&D isprobabilistic. We show that R&D investments are higher under Bertrand (Cournot)competition when R&D productivities are sufficiently low (high), and...

Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der Sitzung des Arbeitskreises Mittelstand der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung vom 16. Juni 2004

How can innovation and competition be sustained in closed tight oligopolistic market structures? This question will be crucial in the next years for an appropriate regulation of mobile markets. The regulatory framework era of the postulate of infrastructure based competition seems behind us. It...