A model of open innovation among competing firms is developed. Innovation is modelled as a dynamic sequential process where existing technologies advance through research. New technologies are incorporated into next generation of competing products. This model is implemented in an evolutionary...

A number of competing views are swirling around the literature concerning the impact of globalization on the ability of cooperatives to survive. This 10th volume of the Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms series wants to understand some of these elements in...