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Service-sector competition, innovation and R&D

Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson; Karpaty, Patrik - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 20 (2011) 1, pp. 63-88

innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been tested on the service … for exporting service-sector firms. A further breakdown of innovation expenditures shows that the inverse U-shaped pattern … competitors. The behavior of large firms can partly be due to their superior capacity to handle innovation projects internally …

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Competition, Innovation And Increasing Returns

Amendola, M.; Gaffard, J. -L.; Musso, P. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 9 (2000) 2, pp. 149-181

When firms enjoy increasing returns in presence of a high rate of innovation, competition may obtain due to the …

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Innovation, Skilled Labour, Technology And Performance In Israeli Industrial Firms

Regev, Haim - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5 (1998) 2-4, pp. 301-324

A technology index based on R&D, skilled labour and capital vintage was developed and used to characterise industrial firms by technology level, facilitating the analysis of relationships between technology and economic performance at the firm level. The results show that technology-intensive...

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Does experience matter? innovations and the productivity of information and communication technologies in German services

Hempell, Thomas - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14 (2005) 4, pp. 277-303

In this paper, it is argued that investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) are closely linked to complementary innovations and are most productive in firms with experience from earlier innovations. In the empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period...

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