ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When … innovation and adoption require large set-up costs, the leader favors quick adoption by the follower. The follower prefers either …This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new …

more important when there is an increase in network effects. A consequence is higher innovation incentives under an … reducing bidding competition, thereby also reducing acquisition prices and innovation incentives. -- Acquisitions … ; commercialization ; compatibility ; entry ; network effects ; innovation ; R&D ; regulation. …

more important when there is an increase in network effects. A consequence is higher innovation incentives under an … reducing bidding competition, thereby also reducing acquisition prices and innovation incentives. …

innovation) or through acquisition …

-business technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When innovation …This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new e … and adoption require large set-up costs, the leader favors quick adoption by the follower. The follower prefers either …

We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups …

Since the seminal works of Schumpeter (1937) and Arrow (1962), economists have recognised that the innovation process … govern the appropriability of economic returns from innovation In this paper we focus on one particular aspect of the … relationship between market structure and innovation, that is the effect of regulation on the incentives to innovate of a regulated …

debate, especially in phases of economic recession. So far, the effects of innovation - in its manifold declinations and … different compensation mechanisms through which employment adjusts after an innovation is introduced. Secondly, it critically … attempt to conceptualize a number of stylized facts and empirical regularities on the innovation-employment nexus. …