such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in … impede effective competition as regards innovation both in innovation spaces where the Parties' lines of research and early …

This paper examines the effects of promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO executives on corporate innovation … executives, are associated with a higher level of patent quantity and quality, innovation efficiency, and patent importance and … underlying mechanisms through which tournament incentives promote firm innovation. Our paper highlights the importance of inter …

innovation spillovers. In addition, decreasing competition magnifies the spillover effect. The net effect of the total spillover …This study examines the relationship between the two sides of innovation of research and development (R&D) and … competition. By analyzing the Korean firm-level data from 2000 to 2015, we find that competition is an important factor for …

innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …We find a U-shaped relation between industry concentration and innovation. The relation is driven by neck …-and-neck industries where firms operate with similar productivity. When industry concentration is low, innovation intensity decreases as …

, namely from the viewpoint of the induced innovation theory – authored by J.R. Hicks in 1932, later developed and presented in …

This paper develops the theory of a U relation between seller concentration and R&D investment and integrates the new … theory with the traditional expectation of an inverted-U relation. The paper illustrates the U relation, and the integrated U … structural competition across industries while admitting little if any variation in the type of R&D …

Strategy, structure and rivalry across an industry has an impact upon innovation outcomes at the industry level …) competition and in factor markets (patents). Using data from the motor vehicle industry, we find only limited support for the … stability across the networks. The results suggest that firms are likely to engage in co-opetition, thus changes in innovation …