This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …

We develop a simple model of competition for the market that shows that, contrary to the Arrow view, endogenous entry …

market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts … positive effect on R&D efforts both under research joint venture and under research competition. Firms' propensity to …

distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm’s main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank’s portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …

market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g. firms …-cooperating firms if spillovers are sufficiently large. The degree of market competition is a key determinant of the effects of research … cooperation on research efforts, implying that existing models which assume perfect competition might be too restrictive. …

. Our empirical investigation rests upon a survey of more than 1,100 innovative firms in Germany. Our survey puts us in the …