information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …

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 …

results known in static frameworks. First, more competition pushes Neck and Neck firms to advertise more to attract a larger …

Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … of Boone (2001) in order to determine the choice of positioning in a context of cumulative innovation. Thus, taking into … (called first mover) to implement cumulative innovation in order to maintain its position in spite of the investments of …

The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …

The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI … conceiving innovation systems as associations of building blocks and using contemporary engineering diagram-based languages to … display them. Nevertheless, this improvement does not challenge the dynamic features of innovation systems …

We live in a society in which technical objects are omnipresent; where technology transforms our world and conceives … we remain largely unaware of it. If R&D seems to be an enabler of innovation, it is not sufficient by itself. Thus, the … use the linear model of innovation as the basis for policies to promote innovation? Is it not possible to go against the …

généralement liés à l'innovation sous ses diverses formes : innovation produit naturellement, mais aussi innovation process …, innovation organisationnelle ou innovation sociale. Le manager ou le chef de projet en charge d'une telle transformation complexe …