Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...

Since the 1970s, there have been significant changes in firm dynamics within and across industries in the US. Industries are increasingly dominated by a small number of large firms ("superstars"). Markups, market concentration, profits, and R&D spending are increasing, whereas business dynamism,...

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? Technical progress consists of numerous small improvements made upon the existing technology continuous improvement and innovative activities aiming at entirely new technology (discrete innovation). Continuous improvement is often of limited relevance...

As technology is one of the main drives of economy, many studies attempt to open this black box and understand how it functions. In this paper, I will discuss the benefits of examining technology as a system and emphasis on the linkage between industrial structure and technologies. After...

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than relative...

Le propos de cet article est de montrer comment la division sociale fonctionnelle de la production de savoir -qui conferait a deux modes de production de savoir collectifs et decentralises (la "Republique des Sciences" et le "Royaume de la Technologie") la production respective des deux types de...

This study summarizes the main conclusions from a systematic review of the empirical literature regarding the impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers, including universities, technology institutes or knowledge intensive business firms. We use a criteria to classify the literature...

L'objet de cette etude est de presenter pour le Quebec l'evolution des inscriptions et de la diplomation dans les disciplines scientifiques, aux niveaux collegial et universitaire au cours des trentes dernieres annees.