Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

reasonable to expect that mandates would work well as an incentive for innovation? To address this question, we develop a partial … equilibrium model with endogenous innovation to examine the incentives for innovation in production under a mandate and compare …

There is a large literature which investigates the relationship between market concentration and innovation. It is … positive relationship between market concentration and innovation. …

implications of the changing market structure on the level of innovation has not been studied yet. In this paper we deal with the … link between innovation and market structure using the empirical example of the Danish agri-food industry. The purpose of … this paper is two-fold. First we test for the importance of vertical integration on innovation. While there exist several …

We use an augmented national ideas production function to examine skilled immigrants' impact on Canadian innovation at … the provincial level. Empirically, this model was tested using Canadian data by province on innovation flow over an 11 … year time period, where innovation flow is defined in terms of international (U.S.) patents. It was found that skilled …