This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …

In this article, we consider technology leaders (which are innovators) and technology followers (which are non … competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a two-stage game with a deterministic Research and Development (R&D) process … outputs simultaneously. We show that the inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation occurs if …

corporate reports. As an original contribution, we incorporate the intensity of corporate discourse on technology …

This paper analyses endogenous formation of technology sharing coalitions with asymmetric firms. Coalition partners … produce complementary technology advancements, although firms do not co-operate on R&D investment level or in the product …. The two-firm coalition is the preferred outcome of a welfare maximising authority if ex ante marginal cost is sufficiently …

learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms’ incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case the leader’s innovation effort declines with the lead. This … ; innovation ; knowledge ; market structure …