Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over …

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …