technologies and imitation of industry leaders. Employment growth in leader firms is encouraged whereas growth of backward firms is …

of the innovation (a low imitation degree) does not affect the imitation success in a positive way. Furthermore, an … been developed. An empirical investigation of 66 firms shows that imitation projects are only successful if one succeeds in … realizing a high imitation degree and in impeding the market entry of further imitators. Further development or an improvement …

findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain … innovation. Ambitious environmental standards, though, continue to be an important regulative precondition of ecologically benign … technological innovation. …

This paper focuses on the relationship between technological innovation and international trade. In particular, the … effect of technological achievement on exports is studied. In order to measure technological innovation, the technological … classified into four groups according to their level of technological innovation: Leaders, Potential Leaders, Dynamic Adopters …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skillintensive … activity than imitation. Also, we provide evidence in favor of this prediction using a panel dataset covering 19 OECD countries …