imitation. …

countries via skills acquisition, competition, exports and imitation. These spillovers channels are used to transfer … technological knowledge among firms, while the imitation is used by many multinational enterprises (MNEs) and it is considered one …

, Khenkin, 1988. It is shown that, as a result of interaction between innovation and imitation, the shape of the efficiency …

facilitates normative analysis of imitation in location choice by explicitly quantifying losses in aggregate efficiency following …

. - The median estimated ratio of imitation cost to innovation cost is about 80% for major patented, 50% for major unpatented … about ten months. Since there is a significant correlation between cost and time of imitation, the conclusions are the same …

also involves imitation, where empathy is irrelevant. While the former may attenuate the principal’s emotion, the latter …

In this paper we analyze a tax evasion game with taxpayer learning by imitation. If the authority commits to a fixed …

A simple model of imitation and innovation is developed to explain a complicated picture of relative productivity … imitation, only innovation or a mixed policy prevails. We demonstrate how one can find the stationary states and check their … stability for a broad class of imitation-innovation cost functions. Using World Bank statistical data for the period of 1980 …

A simple model of technological imitation and innovation is developed to explain club convergence in the evolution of … includes only innovation-imitation tradeoff, and the second one takes into account traditional investment decisions as well. It … versions, there are three types of stable steady-state regimes, with only imitation, only innovation or a mixed policy. Using …