Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

How does competition affect innovation and how it is financed in R&D-intensive firms? We study the interaction between … competition, R&D investments, and the financing choices of such firms using data on biopharmaceutical firms. To motivate the … existing assets are all determined in response to the degree of competition in the industry. The key predictions are that, as …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and when biotechnology enterprises emerge and agglomerate. Density … dependence and previous founding dependence proxy many underlying processes; the legitimation and competition interpretation is … more conjectural than empirically tenable. We argue and demonstrate for biotechnology that an alternative model based on …

In this paper, we examine the determinants of control rights in technology strategic alliances between biotechnology … firms and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as with other biotechnology firms. We undertake three clinical studies and an …

.S. biotechnology enterprises during 1976-1989. Using a linked cross-section/time- series panel data set, we find that the timing and … structures. We believe biotechnology may be prototypical of the birth patterns in other innovative industries …

of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech …