The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

We examine the effects of that government policy change and assess how it has impacted firm innovation. To address …

undertake innovation. Successful imitation of the state-of-the-art quality level makes inventing an even higher quality level … attractive for Southern firms. Subsidizing Southern innovation increases the rate of Southern innovation relative to imitation … but also decreases the rate of imitation. Taxing (Southern) imitation or Northern innovation has the same effect, as does …

incumbents. We examine the role in catch-up of late movers' optimal resource allocation between innovation and imitation … either imitation or innovation deters technological leadership change by late movers in the long run, since the leading firms … allocate more R&D resources to innovation and attempt technological leapfrogging. This transition from imitation to innovation …

We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …. Innovation and human-capital accumulation appear as in-line engines of scale-invariant endogenous growth. Industries evolve … according to stochastic processes of innovation, imitation and technology adaption in the global economy. …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …

, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation … imitation and incremental innovation. Our results indicate that when controlling for firms’ IP portfolio, the composition of …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …