This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a …

resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …

We develop a model of R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant with network externalities and …

This paper analyzes the impact of network externalities on R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant …&D competition intensity. …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

shown that network externalities positively affect the incentives to invest in R&D. In the model, competition resembles a … single firm dominates the market (i.e. wins the race), short-run competition is very fierce and concentrated on neck …-and-neck technological configurations. This short-run competition is fiercer and longer, the higher the level of network externalities …

concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous …