The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the … partners in innovation projects, nevertheless in-house development is the most important form of creating innovative products … intensity, are very important for the innovation success. Tacit and codified transfer channels are equally important for the …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. Common knowledge stands that innovation is the cause of the increase of exports. However, contradicting empirical … evidences are reported in the literature on the causality between innovation and export. In this paper we examine whether …