innovation in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement has been driven by higher levels of competition in EU15 economies …. To this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-10. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …

entire destination at the national level. National competitiveness in this paper can be improved by increasing innovation … challenge and choice for reaching national and regional competitiveness. …

The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application … of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger …

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or … new to the market. To further explore why young SMEs are not more active in innovation, we explore their access to finance … classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application … of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger …

How does policy affect innovation and the digital economy? We revisit how standard product market regulation affects … innovation and develop a novel framework for thinking about digital regulation. Using new establishment-level micro-data across … 12 countries between 1998 and 2012, this paper first estimates the effect of competition policy on innovation. We find …