According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …

competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …

results known in static frameworks. First, more competition pushes Neck and Neck firms to advertise more to attract a larger …

Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … of Boone (2001) in order to determine the choice of positioning in a context of cumulative innovation. Thus, taking into … (called first mover) to implement cumulative innovation in order to maintain its position in spite of the investments of …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …

A. Hopwood en Europe. Dans le domaine des systèmes de coûts l'innovation que constitue l'ABC a nourri un intense courant …

This paper examines the evolution of innovation in nuclear power reactors between 1974 and 2008 in twelve OECD … countries and assesses to what extent nuclear innovation has been driven by economic incentives, political decisions and safety … activity. Our results highlight that nuclear innovation is partly driven by the conventional paradigm where both demandpull …