this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-2008. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on … of innovation have been associated with increasing economic rents – i.e., with further departures from the perfect-competition …

Contrary to most of the literature, which focuses only on the level of investment in innovation, this paper examines … competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …

This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between innovation, competition and distance to the technology … product innovations. Secondly, there is evidence that innovation and competition are more positively correlated at low levels … allows to capture a crucial determinant of a firm's business strategy and its response to competition. The findings from the …

-doing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. I develop a dynamic step by step innovation model … accumulation the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case, the leader's innovation effort declines with the lead. This …

within the productivity distribution of surviving .rms. It is found that both innovation and less concentrated market …

and development. It presents a new framework incorporating the selection effect of product market competition, the …