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Acquisitions, entry, and innovation in oligopolistic network industries
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tå̊g, Joacim - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 37 (2014) C, pp. 1-12
option of selling to an incumbent increases the innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when the network effects are strong … not necessarily restrict the innovation incentives and that network effects promote acquisitions over entry. …
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Acquisitions, Entry, and Innovation in Network Industries
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim Ingemar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
option of selling to an incumbent increases innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when network effects are strong and … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the … entrepreneur has strong incentives to invest in the initial user base of the innovation. …
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371
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Quasi-Rational R&D Behavior in an Environment with Fundamental Uncertainty
Erlei, Mathias; Dimmig, Anne-Kathrin - Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Technische … - 2012
The objective of our paper is to study R&D investments and pricing behavior in an environment with fundamental uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage. Participants in the experiment had almost no...
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Competitor localization and innovation activity of peripheral industrial systems in Poland
Swiadek, Arkadiusz - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 12 (2013) 3, pp. 463-474
Spatial proximity to competitors is an important factor in the acceleration of technological change in industrial systems in most developed countries, but is it also in Poland? The main objective of the study was to identify and evaluation the impact of distance from the nearest competitor on...
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Semi-Public Contests
Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
The process of innovation is driven by two main factors: new inventions and institutions supporting the transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092791
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Market competition and innovation in Luxembourg
Peroni, Chiara; Gomes Ferreira, Ivete - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the empirical relation between market competition and innovation using Luxembourg's Structural … on the idea of cost-efficiency. From this, the paper analyses the relation between competition and innovation performance … relation between competition and innovation is non-linear and depends crucially on the efficient use of inputs to production …
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Effects of innovation on firm performance
Lachenmaier, Stefan - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
subject of this study is an econometric analysis of the effects of innovation on firm performance. The main data source for … this analysis is the Ifo Innovation Survey, which has provided yearly, firm-level data on innovation since 1982. Following … two introductory chapters on innovation, the data set is introduced and explained in detail. Subsequent chapters analyze …
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Patents, competition and firms’ innovation incentives
Beneito, Pilar; Rochina-Barrachina, María E.; Sanchis, … - Departament d'Estructura Econòmica, Facultad de Economía - 2012
industry level, and their induced effects on firms’ innovation incentives. We use for that purpose a panel dataset of Spanish … industry patenting intensity) reduces market competition, it may also encourage firms’ innovation incentives (in terms of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559796
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A Generalized Knowledge Production Function
Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … of the relationship are discussed. For the empirical analysis we use Swedish firm-level innovation survey data covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190437