products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new products on the private incentives to innovate are investigated on the …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … suppliers’ R&D intensity if the powerful buyer operates under strong technology competition. -- Innovation ; Buyer Power …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

of diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …

&D investments in t+1, while high substitutability exerts negative incentives for future R&D investment. -- Innovation ; R …This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …