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German automobile industry. The data set contains firms from all size classes and measures of innovation input as well as … innovation output. It can be shown that a) innovation and R&D-employment intensity will decline (increase) in buyer concentration … if supplier markets are low (high) concentrated, b) buyers' pressure on input prices reduces suppliers' innovation …
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An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival's beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …
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, personality traits and innovation game behavior in the lab are interrelated. With the help of a within-subject design we find that … participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …
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Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms...
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-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
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-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak and external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation tend to be profitable, but …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak or external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation also increase consumer surplus and …
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, competitive pressure in the ensuing innovation race induces firms to launch innovations too early, thereby raising the likelihood … punitive damages instead of mere compensation of harm caused, in order to decelerate such welfare-reducing innovation races …
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affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …
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