This paper analyses the effect of piracy on innovation in the presence of R&D competition with technological and market … uncertainty. With a single innovating firm facing technological uncertainty, piracy unambiguously retards innovation. However … innovation. We also show that if the difference between the probabilities of success of the innovating firms is relatively large …

commonly labelled as piracy impedes innovation. We find the answer depends on the nature of piracy i.e. whether it is end …-users or commercial piracy. For end user piracy, copyright infringement does not necessarily impede innovation; in fact it can … be shown that it encourages innovation when the pirates are active. However, for commercial piracy, it always impedes …

commonly labelled as piracy impedes innovation. We find the answer depends on the nature of piracy i.e. whether it is end …-users or commercial piracy. For end user piracy, copyright infringement does not necessarily impede innovation; in fact it can … be shown that it encourages innovation when the pirates are active. However, for commercial piracy, it always impedes …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …

growth, innovation, employment and social integration. Thus (global) business competitiveness of any country can be observed … throughout national (globally operating SMEs) enterprises and their innovation willingness/abilities. According to our opinion … role in promoting innovation. But enterprises need to innovate their enterprise policy, consequently also strategic …

findings show that technical capability influences organisational agility, which in turn affects innovation capability …

cost savings. We view the monopolistically competitive firm as an essential source of technological innovation, product … monopolistically competitive firm not only offers product variety and innovation but is the optimal institutional arrangement under …

I propose an economic framework for analyzing innovation effects of nascent competitor acquisitions. The framework … identifies nine factors as key determinants of innovation effects. These factors are: replacement, nascent market size, synergies …, appropriability, nascent market competition, entrenchment, incumbent innovation competition, merger incentives, and entry incentives …

This article explores the possibility of associating firm size vis-à-vis industry size with firm-level R&D led-innovation … firm and some fringes. Innovation by the dominant firm is viewed both as a technological breakthrough and as (cost …) augmenting monetary expenditure. When innovation is considered as technological breakthrough, then for the benevolent industry …