own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …

intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … and growth carries over to the Cournot set-up. -- competition ; imitation ; innovation ; Schumpeterian growth ; sector …

Northern trade liberalization reduces the rate of innovation, increases Northern unemployment, and reduces both Northern and …

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development - innovation and imitation … - are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level …

We study the effect of analyst coverage on firms' innovation strategy and outcome. By considering three different … negative effect becomes not significant when firms' in-house R&D spending and external innovation channels are taken into … account. We find that more financial analysts encourage firms to make more efficient investments related to innovation, which …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …