Epistemic arguments play a significant role in Hayek’s defense of market liberalism. Hisclaim that market competition … and cost competition but alsocompetition by innovations. Thence he overlooks the ambiguity that follows from …

Unternehmen dar. Durch einen in Geschwindigkeitund Intensität immer schneller zunehmenden Wettbewerb nehmen Innovationen eine …

Research and Development (R&D) and innovation are crucial features of the seed industry. To supportlarge R … patents naturally creates market power positions and raisesdifficult and unresolved competition issues in an antitrust context.[...] …

The challenges faced by businesses in Europe are determined by the increasing amount of competition in global commodity …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

-price auction since holding an auction may leave higher rents to firms when the innovation technology is subject to large random …

A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on … instrument of innovation policy. Compared to conventional policies, administration of the program is a much more critical issue … Durchführung des Wettbewerbs benötigt wird. Da ein Wettbewerb ein ausgesprochenes "Pick the Winner"-Vefahren darstellt, ist dieser …

A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on … instrument of innovation policy. Compared to conventional policies, administration of the program is a much more critical issue … Durchführung des Wettbewerbs benötigt wird. Da ein Wettbewerb ein ausgesprochenes ‘Pick the Winner’-Vefahren darstellt, ist dieser …

We show the effects of Bertrand and Cournot competition on R&D investmentand social welfare in a duopoly with R …&D competition where success in R&D isprobabilistic. We show that R&D investments are higher under Bertrand (Cournot)competition when … Cournot competition can generate highersocial welfare in absence of knowledge spillover and this happens if R&D is drastic …