This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent …, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the volume. Innovation is critical to economic growth. While it is well … understood that legal institutions play an important role in fostering an environment conducive to innovation and its …

Innovation is fundamentally dependent on the support of research technology. Governments and organizations have been …, our understanding of how specific attributes of research technologies affect the rate and direction of innovation, and … evaluates the role of research technology attributes for the rate and direction of innovation. The model produces empirically …

by the perception that learning and innovation are essential for the survival of organizations due to the dynamics of … external environments. Despite continued interest by researchers in innovation and organizational learning, there is a gap with … be in place. The need for organizations to develop dynamic capabilities that can span innovation cycles is clear. If IT …

economic vitality caused by investments in domestic technology innovation in the formerly integrated national economy, national … innovation Along with the new innovation park infrastructure, the most important job creation strategy that the EDA could … implement is creating the new capital market infrastructure that targets investments to regional innovation opportunities. This …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies. In this column, the organization discusses the definition of innovation economics with …. The authors' reference the topic of innovation economics covered in a Business Week article, published earlier this fall …

This paper studies the effect of competition on firm innovation by developing a discrete-time endogenous growth model … where multi-product firms do two types of innovation subject to friction in technology spillovers. Firms improve their … existing products through internal innovation while entering others' product markets through external innovation. We introduce …

This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between innovation, competition and distance to the technology … product innovations. Secondly, there is evidence that innovation and competition are more positively correlated at low levels … positively correlated with product innovation when a firm is more advanced than its main competitor. In other cases, this …

Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some … technologies, such as ICT and biotechnology, as innovation activities continue to focus on sectors, such as machinery and … ...<BR><P>Selon les principaux indicateurs, l’Allemagne est l’un des pays de l’OCDE où l’activité d’innovation est soutenue …

Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European … policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and … general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last …