(EU) approach to entrepreneurship policy, which includes small and medium-sizedenterprises (SMEs), innovation, and competitiveness …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

We examine the effects of that government policy change and assess how it has impacted firm innovation. To address …

the individual-level foundations of firm-level innovation in the context of imitative competition. A key insight is that … despite intuitions that knowledge mobilization should protect firms from rival imitation attempts, knowledge mobilization can …, sustainable advantage may emerge under limited conditions under which knowledge-mobilizing firms outrace rivals' imitation efforts …

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

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 … allocate more R&D resources to innovation and attempt technological leapfrogging. This transition from imitation to innovation …