As a vital component of entrepreneurship, innovation spirit is significant for innovation performance. Utilizing the … relationship between the innovation spirit, research and development (R&D) investment, and innovation performance of micro and … small enterprises (MSEs). Our research results show that the innovation spirit of MSEs has a significant promotional effect …

. Confrontation between markets is particularly harsh, and that competition should be seen in its actual size, since only in this way … globalized economy, it is essential for firms to invest in research, development and innovation. This is the best strategy to … overcome the crisis. This paper describes some important links between the competitive advantage and technological innovation …

Specific innovation capabilities enable large firms to depart from constant returns to scale and benefit from …

Many kinds of research has suggested that innovation is positively linked to business performance and that it acts as … worldwide have paid great attention to identifying and exploiting the main drivers of innovation management, which has led to … many research articles that have adopted different approaches and identified several factors that are related to innovation …

. These policies triggered concerns over the impact of debt financing on firms' technological innovation activities. Based on … the effect of debt financing on two types of technological innovation, namely radical and incremental innovation …. Specifically, both the direct effect of debt financing on technological innovation and its moderating effect on the relationship …

cumulative innovations and the impact of possible competition between rival software development teams are considered. …

global economy is innovation development and that through innovation application, underdeveloped regions can reduce the gap … hypothesis, to determine the role and significance of innovation development in the provision of regional competitiveness and to … identify ways to increase the competitiveness of underdeveloped regions through innovation application. The methodological …

We consider innovation contests for the procurement of an innovation under moral hazard and adverse selection … random quality. Innovation quality is not contractible. We compare two procurement mechanisms -- a fixed prize and a first …

Empirical evidence about innovation is doubtful in showing incumbent firms’ and new entrants’ attitude toward radical …’s incentives to invest in innovation. The model captures the peculiarity of a radical innovation along three dimension: Risk … complementarity between markets in determining the incentives to innovative in the radical case. Implications on innovation policy are …

. However, economists have long debated the relationship between competition and innovation. A leading view among contemporary … promote post-grant follow-on innovation and development. The argument rests critically on the assumption that post …-grant competition will diminish such efforts. This is just a special case of the more general claim that a market will be more …