The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose a refined version of the CDM model that analyses the impacts of competition on four interrelated stages of the innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation,...

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the old powers. This report explores how deep the change...

The present paper is conducted under the research project “Enterprise of the Future: Trends and Scenarios towards Competitiveness” which attempts to disclosure determinants of future enterprise competitiveness. Innovation is not only a must today but also an imperative in future...

<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community...

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight how evolutionary theory can provide an adequate framework for sectoral studies. It sets out the broad outlines of such an approach focusing on key concepts, while suggesting lines of interpretation of industrial dynamics. The concrete illustrations...

Through investment in scientific, technological, and innovation activities and investment in computer equipment and communication, organizations try to create a strategy that helps them establish a better innovation performance. Mainly when these organizations are from the manufacturing...

National antitrust policies have potentially profound effects on global competitiveness of individual industries. Public policy interventions affecting organizational arrangements within industries, enforcement of commodity standardization, and price competition, as well as the regulation of...

L'objectif de l'article est de souligner l'importance des compétences, notamment les compétences relationnelles, dans le processus innovatif des entreprises. L'innovation ne peut se résumer à la seule R&D et nécessite souvent le développement de réseaux, de rela tions diverses qu'il...

Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand,...