Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …

introduce process innovations to lower their production costs. Product innovations introduce an escape-competition effect … coevolution of market and network structure matter for the relationship between competition and innovation. Moreover, our model … to different levels of competition in these industries. …

How do financial constraints influence innovative activities of firms? In a two-period model of price competition with … and might even become a monopolist in the second period of competition. If we finally assume that both firms are …