to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …, exports, or population density. Innovation and foreign ownership appear to be the strongest drivers of multifactor …

in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …

in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990–2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …

complements to, and not substitutes for, the original product. We discuss the implications on firm strategy for innovation …

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher …

to develop the innovation and the decision to introduce the new product in the market are separated. In our multi … potential innovator strategically over-invests in process innovation. In this equilibrium the competitor over-invests in order …

innovation of its larger competitor. In equilibrium the firm with smaller capacity on the established market might outperform the …

innovation of its competitor in this way. Overall, total payoffs depend non-monotonously on the capacities on the established …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …