Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

In this paper, we investigate innovation factors and their role in regional economic performance for a sample of 261 EU … innovation factors on economic performance. The spatial analysis indicates that both regional in- novativeness and regional … Europe. We assessed the impact of innovation factors and their spatial counterparts on economic performance using a spatial …

Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been … manufacturing. In particular, I investigate how well alternative, yet rigorous measures of innovation and the technology gap, such …

behaviour and distinguish between different innovation regimes. On the basis of a set of simulations of this model we derive a …