European Union policymakers have in principle put innovation at the heart of competitiveness, in particular in the … Europe 2020 strategy. But in merger control, assessments of the innovation effects of mergers are inadequate, even though … capability to innovate. EU merger control rules include scope for assessing the innovation effects of mergers, but in practice …

, but Chinese patenting for exploitation on the main markets for innovation(the European Union, Japan and the US) is still … marginal. - Asia's increased innovation spending is most prominently related to information and communication technologies …'s innovation potential on the basis of its current performance. Its clear innovation ambitions are likely to drive its future …

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …