substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product …

Individuals and firms can improve their performance through collaboration and competition. However, it is still an open … question how collaboration and competition schemes can be optimally designed and incentivized in order to exploit their full … dissertation under supervision of Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the LMU …