innovation. Innovation changes the status quo pay-off, and thereby affects the distribution of the gains from collusion. The … resulting innovation incentive is strictly smaller than in the competitive case. …

Policymakers all over the world claim: no innovation without protection. For more than a century, critics have objected …. It is possible to model innovation as a prisoner's dilemma between potential innovators, and to interpret intellectual …

The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose … information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that … strategic disclosure for the firms.profits and the probability of innovation. …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …

analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …