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, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …
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This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical … as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade …. Basically the estimation results confirm that introducing a product innovation is positively related with demand and provision …
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the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …
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Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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firms simultaneously decide on their pricing and innovation strategies is used as the basis for the econometric analysis … innovation decisions in each source country are jointly determined and that total pass-through to euro area import prices is low …
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This paper analyzes the effects of mergers and acquisitions on the markups of non-merging rival firms across a broad set of industries. We exploit expert market definitions from the European Commission's merger decisions to identify relevant competitors in narrowly defined product markets....
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This paper analyzes the effects of mergers on markups of non-merging rival firms in narrowly defined markets. Combining data from the European Commission’s market assessments in merger decisions with production data, we use recent methodological advances in the estimation of production...
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entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. -- Entrepreneurs ; Innovation ; Commercialization ; Intellectual property law …
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developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …
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context of open innovation amongst scholars, policy makers and business leaders who have recognized the pronounced role of … external knowledge flows within the innovation system. Several studies have already dealt with the impact of design on general … company performance or innovation outcome. They, however, did not specifically link design to collaborative or externally …
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