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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation

Darai, Donja; Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2009 - Revised version

The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments for two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of firms from...

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Foreign direct investment and R&D offshoring

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006

We analyze a two-country model of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Two firms, each of which is originally situated in only one of the two countries, first decide whether to build a plant in the foreign country. Then, they decide whether to relocate R&D activities. Finally, they engage in...

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The relation between competition and innovation : why is it such a mess?

Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Revised version

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....

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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation

Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2008

The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms’ incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892458

Impact Assessment in Tourism Economics

Matias, Álvaro (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.); … - 2016

of tourism development, in particular those related to the role of innovation and human resources. The final section …Editorial Introduction -- Part I: Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism -- Part II: Innovation and Competitiveness in …

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Applied Regional Growth and Innovation Models

Kourtit, Karima - 2014

Preface -- Part A: Knowledge and Innovation in Space -- Part B: Human Capital and Regional Growth -- Part C: Spatial … evolution or global change. In the past decade, an avalanche of new regional economic growth and innovation models has been put …

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Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness : Dynamic Regions in the Knowledge-Based World Economy

Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

Growth -- Part III: The Role of Public Policies in Fostering Innovation, Competitiveness and Growth … driven by knowledge and innovation. It offers novel empirical evidence on the underlying factors of the growth performance of … innovation in the development strategies of the dynamic growth regions? What are the risks and consequences of dynamic growth on …

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Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics

Kourtit, Karima - 2011

assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and … perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a …

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