victimes de ce phénomène. Cette représentation victimaire est en grande partie provoquée par les diverses pratiques d'imitation … partenaires qui déçoivent souvent leur confiance. L'imitation constitue finalement le dernier recours pour l'entrepreneur soucieux … de se familiariser avec une technique qu'il ne connaît pas sans tomber dans la dépendance. Les innovateurs victimes de l'imitation …

imitation. We show that vertical integration exacerbates this threat of imitation, which de facto degrades the integrated … raising rivals' cost and limiting both upstream competition and downstream innovation. A similar concern of customer …

innovation have paid insufficient attention to an author who devoted a large part of his work to the laws of imitation and … invention. The purpose of this paper is threefold. The first is to give a succinct account of these laws of imitation and …

innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …

Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …

innovation ? We find that corruption, functioning as a bribe tax, diminishes the probability of new product introduction. We use … firm and on the average quantity of bribe paid by firms. Controlling for innovation determinants, firm characteristics … and significant impact on product innovation. …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of … imitating a secret innovation, and the innovation size defined as the extent of the cost reduction. The choice of the protection …

Imitation is fundamental in the understanding of social system dynamics. But the diversity of imitation rules employed … distribution of imitation rules while being human specific. The corresponding concepts of equilibrium - counterfactually stable …

'auto-transformation. Nous montrons comment l'imitation permet de penser ce phénomène, comme le suggérait en son temps Gabriel Tarde. …