R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …

firms. This is evident from their technological performance, and innovation and patenting intensity. This structural … tendency is explained as an innovative behaviour in the French national innovation system rather than merely a 'trend'. …

this paper on innovation in genomics and biomedical related biotechnologies is to study the relative impact of the …

competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …