The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation … new firm can be linked back to the innovation strategy of the parent firm. In contrast, there is strong evidence that …

(Ausbau der Infrastruktur, Sachkapitalförderung) inzwischen kaum mehr festzustellen. Forschung und Innovation sind hingegen …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …