Faced with the technological changes and with the rise of international competition, the competitiveness of firms is … based more and more on innovation. In this context, the new innovating firms are regarded as source of competitive dynamism … Competition for creation of New Technology-based Firms, which rewards some innovating projects in giving them a financial and …

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 …

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 …

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 …