complementary process of capital accumulation, innovation and learning. This economic evolution primarily takes place within the … (local) firm-specific level. Hayek stressed competition as a method to discover procedures in order to solve economic … problems (competition as a discovery procedure). The ability to discover new superior solutions to solve economic problems is …

Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

Political competition between European countries has often been viewed as being a stimulus to the innovation process … countries to study the role of political competition in economic growth. The governments of each country are threatened … politically by innovation and hence face a trade-off between the stability of their regime and keeping up with their rivals. The …

This paper gives a fresh account of competition in the digital economy. Economic analysis in the field of industrial … irrelevant. We posit the need to look at competition anew. Static models of monopoly firms and markets in equilibrium are often … growth and diversification of many digital firms lead to a situation of broad-spectrum competition that cuts across markets …

This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis … competition policy approaches toward intellectual property licensing arrangements in the US, Canada and the EU. Part 3 elaborates … the foundational insights that have motivated competition policy interventions with respect to 'newer' issues such as anti …