such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in … impede effective competition as regards innovation both in innovation spaces where the Parties' lines of research and early …

potentially discourage innovation in substitutes for the pool technology. This paper exploits a new historical data set on changes … industry to investigate the effects of a pool on innovation in substitutes. This analysis reveals a substantial increase in … innovation for an – albeit technologically inferior – substitute technology. Historical evidence suggests that the creation of a …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms … framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …

incentives for innovation by applying a property rights approach. We explore a model in which two research laboratories invest in …

Purpose: Over time, technological intensity has been used as a proxy for innovation capability of firms in an …. Therefore, this study aims to explore a potential association between technological intensity and innovation capability in firms … and the components of innovation capability proposed by Zawislak et al. (2012, 2013). Design/methodology/approach: The …

We extend theory on private-collective innovation by studying the role of exclusion rights for technology in the … alternative proprietary solutions. We discuss implications of our findings for theories of innovation, particularly appropriation …