The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …

Simple models of competition for the market with endogenous entry show that, contrary to the Arrow view, an endogenous … these predictions based on a unique dataset and survey for the German manufacturing sector (the Mannheim Innovation Panel …

&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified … competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage …

&D investment and their product market activities. Firstly, we find that in Cournot-quantity competition, owners strategically … compared to R&D competition, which in turn leads to increased R&D investment, reduced product prices and increased profits. …