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 …

a technological structure that is based on imitation of foreign technologies to one where domestic innovation dominates … order to carry out innovation. This endogenous threshold level falls as the economy moves closer to the technological … frontier, enabling more entrepreneurs to be engaged in an innovation-based strategy, and consequently, moving the economy from …

and internal interdisciplinary groups – are more significantly associated with more novel innovation than imitation. The … implications of these findings for the literatures on innovation and imitation, and innovation by emerging market firms are …This paper examines the extent to which different sources of ideas for innovation are associated with novelty of …