We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation …—are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level. Specific …

intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot …

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 …

destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of … imitating a secret innovation, and the innovation size defined as the extent of the cost reduction. The choice of the protection …

A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the …

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject themodels to rigorous … experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the differentpredictions of previous imitation models are due to … the generalized imitation model predicts the differences betweentreatments well. The data also provide support for …