This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

German automobile industry. The data set contains firms from all size classes and measures of innovation input as well as … innovation output. It can be shown that a) innovation and R&D-employment intensity will decline (increase) in buyer concentration … if supplier markets are low (high) concentrated, b) buyers' pressure on input prices reduces suppliers' innovation …

-doing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. I develop a dynamic step by step innovation model … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case, the leader's innovation effort declines with the lead. This …

learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case the leader's innovation effort declines with the lead. This …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced …

learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case the leader's innovation effort declines with the lead. This …

We specify and estimate a dynamic game to study the equilibrium relationship between market structure and innovation in … as stochastically increasing in innovation, the dynamic control, which is proxied by patent applications. Equilibrium … innovation is a function of market structure, the vector of quality levels of all active firms, and the cost of R&D. Our main …

The question that how market structure and innovation are related has been extensively studied in the literature … the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry for the 1980-2005 period. We … industry level. Our findings are the following. (1) The effect of market structure on innovation in the global auto industry …

firm is willing to pay or a process innovation that it would be the only one to use. We show that different measures of …