own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation …—are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level. Specific …

intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot …

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …