positions of their larger, more established rivals. Despite this attention, empirical results relating firm size to innovation … abilities to translate own- and partner-firm experiences into innovation activity. Results from a ten-year study of 463 … of small and large firms give rise to heterogeneity in the firms' innovation activity …

This paper studies the relationship between optimal prizes and scarcity of ideas in innovation contests. We consider a … model where both ideas and effort are integral parts of the innovation process. Contest participants are privately informed …

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 …

imitate instead of concurrently investing in innovation, which alleviates competitive pressure. In contrast with the classical …

innovation within the managing of the enterprise. In such research area the purpose of the study was to identify and evaluate the …

from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … intellectual property and in existing products are associated with decreased U.S. firm innovation …

Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals … and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is … analyzing the effects of two different innovation contests on subjects ́innovativeness: a prize for the aggregate innovativeness …

We study the effect of competition on firm innovation at the product level. We instrument shocks to competition in … rivals' innovation in that therapeutic area. The effect varies with the ex-ante competitiveness of the therapeutic area, as … well as with the rival's position (leader vs. follower) in that area, in a manner consistent with the theory by Aghion et …

We develop a model for how innovation competition affects the organization of research activity and property … commercialization. We analyze firms' incentive for integration in the presence of upstream innovation competition. Integration adversely … can sometimes appear in equilibrium although a semi-integrated arrangement has higher innovation probability and aggregate …