the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services … potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets in order to stimulate competition …, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … (SMP) were associated with increased product market competition, as measured by a reduction in average profitability, and …

competition in market economies. We find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the …This Paper examines the importance of competition in the growth and development of firms. We make use of the large …-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors …

By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We … impact of time in firm competition: in addition to weighing costs and benefits of late adoption, firms use time as a … strategic variable through the possibility of overtaking their competitors. Due to this very specificity of time competition …

transfer, and their implications for investment, innovation, and product market competition. The model also sheds light on the … communicate valuable knowledge to an entrepreneur, facilitating innovation. The venture capitalist can also communicate the …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …