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 …

After a long period of disregard and underestimation, the issue of innovation in services is now being taken seriously … in economic theory, as well as in public policy. This is not yet the case for innovation in public services. The … objective of this paper is to propose a reinterpretation of the literature on innovation in services in the light of public …

innovation have paid insufficient attention to an author who devoted a large part of his work to the laws of imitation and …

Après une longue phase de méconnaissance et de sous-estimation, la question de l'innovation dans les services est … désormais prise au sérieux dans la théorie économique, comme dans les politiques publiques. Tel n'est pas encore toujours le cas … de l'innovation dans les services publics. L'objectif de cet article est de proposer une relecture de la littérature sur …