This paper examines the effects of promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO executives on corporate innovation … executives, are associated with a higher level of patent quantity and quality, innovation efficiency, and patent importance and … underlying mechanisms through which tournament incentives promote firm innovation. Our paper highlights the importance of inter …

structural competition across industries while admitting little if any variation in the type of R&D …

not directly benefit them - to slow down competition. By disclosing IP, innovators indirectly induce rivals to wait and … imitate instead of concurrently investing in innovation, which alleviates competitive pressure. In contrast with the classical …

We develop a theory of the interaction between product market competition, corporate spin-offs, and innovation. In our … product. We show that, in the absence of competition, the conglomerate firm has an incentive to underinvest in the new … new technology division, after which the spun-off firm invests optimally in developing and commercializing the innovation …

competitiveness may suggest that the nature of competition on the domestic market is altered. Instead, foreign competitiveness of … and with the existence of a specialized R&D department. Product innovation increases foreign competitiveness, which is a …

We extend theory on private-collective innovation by studying the role of exclusion rights for technology in the … competition between private-collective and other innovators. We argue that private-collective innovators both pledge their own and … alternative proprietary solutions. We discuss implications of our findings for theories of innovation, particularly appropriation …

ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …