This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition and innovation. It uses the radical policy … competition and patenting. It then develops an endogenousm growth model with step-by-step innovation that can deliver this … inverted-U pattern.In this model, competition has an ambiguous effect on innovation. On the one hand, it discourages laggard …