Innovation or imitation? The effect of spillovers and competitive pressure on firms' R\&D strategy choice

DOI10.1007/S00712-013-0361-5MaRDI QIDQ404978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olga Slivko, Bernd Theilen

Publication date 4 September 2014

Published in Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/2072/179618

zbMATH Keywords

innovationproduct differentiationspilloversimitationmarket competitionintellectual property rights protection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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