The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices — for example,...

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....

This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical...

Die deutsche Autoindustrie kann auf ein goldenes Jahrzehnt zurückblicken. Zwischen den Jahren 2008 und 2018 erzielten die Unternehmen einen Absatzrekord nach dem anderen. Der Haupttreiber dieser Entwicklung war das starke Wachstum des chinesischen Marktes, von dem die deutschen Hersteller und...

Die deutsche Autoindustrie kann auf ein goldenes Jahrzehnt zurückblicken. Zwischen den Jahren 2008 und 2018 erzielten die Unternehmen einen Absatzrekord nach dem anderen. Der Haupttreiber dieser Entwicklung war das starke Wachstum des chinesischen Marktes, von dem die deutschen Hersteller und...

The goal of this paper is to present a formal model of firm innovation that simultaneously analyzes innovation factors characteristic to the Schumpeterian strand of industrial organization literature and the know-how strand. Corporate R&D intensity serves here as an input measure of firm...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...

This study examines the relationship between the two sides of innovation of research and development (R&D) and competition. By analyzing the Korean firm-level data from 2000 to 2015, we find that competition is an important factor for innovation spillovers. In addition, decreasing competition...

Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for the influence of several variables, we find a U-curve shaped...