vs. imitation strategies that suggests that firms offering search services will increase firm performance through … imitation, while credence firms will increase firm performance through innovation strategies …

from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other firms, and hence imitation could be induced. To preempt imitation … highlight the trade-off of patenting by setting up a recursive system of equations on knowledge leakage and imitation that … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …

incumbents. We examine the role in catch-up of late movers' optimal resource allocation between innovation and imitation … either imitation or innovation deters technological leadership change by late movers in the long run, since the leading firms … are moving targets. Furthermore, when a late mover's technology level is low, the late mover should focus on imitation and …

firms in the period 2008–2014 shows that imitation strategy is positively related to incremental innovation but has an … condition of the imitation strategy–innovation link—they strengthen the link between imitation strategy and incremental … innovation but weaken the link between imitation strategy and radical innovation …