We study the financing of R&D and innovation expenditures of French defence firms at the end of a period characterised …. Improving their financing may induce an increasing of their R&D and innovation expenditures. JEL: L60, L64, G32, O3 …

Conflicting trends confound the pharmaceutical industry. The productivity of pharmaceutical innovation has declined in … innovation prospects, some companies have sought refuge in mergers and acquisitions to disguise their dwindling prospects or gain … declining rate of innovation. In this paper, we consider the second of these causal relationships: the likely impact of the …

We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

Knowledge exchange, innovation policy, and international trade flows are key aspects of the knowledge-based economy. In … relation between innovation and exports. …

their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a … desirability of merger may depend on the effectiveness of the patent system and the cost of innovation. …

innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics literature and the optimisation model, R&D competition, R … innovation compared with R&D competition. However, profit-maximising firms do not prefer the R&D competition strategy. They … with respect to the firm's investment in R&D. The social cost of R&D cartelisation is a loss of product innovation, and the …

Knowledge exchange, innovation policy, and international trade flows are key aspects of the knowledge-based economy. In … relation between innovation and exports. …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

construction industry, the development of green products is still too slow to meet future needs. To push green innovation, this …