production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition … ability, to acknowledge social values. Therefore, an increase in competition on consumer markets shifts the balance in … in competition on investor markets will shift the balance in an opposite direction. …

is Pareto improving over competition. We argue that this literature fails to capture the essence of the Western …, multidimensional heuristic activity. Using a more suitable model of R&D, we reexamine the competition versus cooperation debate. We … derive conditions under which competition dominates cooperation and vice versa. We submit that our approach and results …

complex competitive landscape, constitutes a mix of competition and cooperation. Here, we assume that the paradoxical aspect … of competition and cooperation [Quinn, R.E. and Cameron, K.S. (1988) Paradox and Transformation. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger …

innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been tested on the service … holds for intramural R&D and training, but not for extramural R&D. Finally, the results indicate that as competition …, which will become more important if increased competition results in higher pay-offs to innovation. …

When firms enjoy increasing returns in presence of a high rate of innovation, competition may obtain due to the …

through catch up, and increased privatisation and competition are conducive to productivity growth. …

. (2004) Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship. NBER Working Paper series, No. 9269.) model are supported by … firm-level data. In particular, we analyze if there is an inverted U-shaped relation between competition and R&D. Results … Herfindahl index, results suggest that breaking up monopolies increases R&D, whereas further increases in competition most likely …

trade protection, particularly when other remedies are available to industries hurt by import competition. …