An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in … labour-shedding and from innovation, which in turn was fuelled by innovative input suppliers and by multinationals bringing …

productivity and the rate of innovation. These predictions accord well with the results from our firm interviews. The model …

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation. …