Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political … setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing governments rely on taxes to …

-business technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When innovation …

This paper presents a model of sequential innovation in which industry structure is endogenous and a standard of … nonobviousness; in Europe it is called the inventive step). The rate of innovation initially rises as this standard is raised from … standard that maximizes the rate of innovation. Surprisingly, this critical standard is more stringent for industries disposed …

We consider mergers in an innovation contest between n firms in the presence of synergetic effects. We assume that a …

immune from the principles of The Innovator's Dilemma. However, neither the disruptive nor sustaining innovation described in … innovation,” that takes into account the opposing forces in play. As with most other sectors, lawyers have argued that Big Law is …

A persistent theme in the academic literature on technological innovation is that incumbent enterprises have great … difficulty crossing the abyss created by a radical technological innovation. It is argued that incumbents go into decline, while … performance in markets shaken by a radical technological innovation …

innovation in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement has been driven by higher levels of competition in EU15 economies …. To this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-10. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …

(Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt, dass die deutsche Industrie eine überdurchschnittlich starke Innovationsorientierung …This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … exporting in German manufacturing since the beginning of 2000. Using firm-level data from the Community Innovation Surveys in …