substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product …

innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive … pressure measured by product substitutability may decrease firms' incentives to conduct continuous improvement, and that an … increase in the size of discrete innovation may decrease firms' incentives to conduct continuous improvement. A unique feature …

substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product …

substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product …