of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses … concept of competitiveness that embeds beyond-GDP objectives (MS46). It then extends this work by deriving an initial set of … competitiveness, it specifically discusses the new concept of competitiveness proposed in MS46 and the notion of trade-offs among …