Today, classical art institutions are highly involved in finding a new way to enlarge their public and to modernize their brand image as they are stressed by a extensive competition. As a result, they explore how relevant would be to implement new strategies showing to their public new art...

According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on innovative activity measured by patenting. The sample...

Audit Quality and Auditee Satisfaction: Chronicle of an Ordinary Innovation The objective of this research is to examine the role which a quality framework plays in the relationships between the auditor and the auditee. For that, we study the origins of an association gathering nine French audit...

Faced with the technological changes and with the rise of international competition, the competitiveness of firms is based more and more on innovation. In this context, the new innovating firms are regarded as source of competitive dynamism. However, these firms encounter difficulties to finance...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight...

This article contributes to the literature on competition and innovation. It tests the impact of market regulation on innovation conditional to the closeness to the technological frontier with a panel of 15 industries for 17 OECD countries over the period 1979–2003. One of the main conclusions...