shares. We investigate how pharmaceutical firms use mergers and acquisitions to boost their innovation performance which has … successful in their innovation endeavours than firms with other goal orientation. Further, the firms’ prior acquisition … experience appears to aid their innovation performance. However, we found that target size can affect the post …

concentration ultimately harms innovation, efficiency, consumer welfare, and democratic representation. It argues that patent law …” commercialization. However, when focusing on downstream industry segments that bring patented technologies to market—“innovation” in an … patent-intensive, and legal and economic theory has long explored the role of patents in shaping industry structure …

This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …&D has been examined for both countries. The study is unique in comparing Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

predicts that a merger is more likely to be profitable in an innovation intensive industry. For a high degree of firm … heterogeneity a merger reduces innovation in both the merged entity and in non-merging competitors in an industry with high R …This papers analyses how horizontal mergers affect innovation activities of the merged entity and its non …

Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for Belgium in two consecutive periods, this paper explores the … relationship between firm-level innovation activities and the propensity to start exporting. To measure innovation, we include … indicators of both innovative effort (R&D activities) as well as innovative output (product and process innovation). Our results …