The importance of competition for innovation - ARCHIVED

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Firms have to be highly innovative to gain competitive advantage in today's increasingly competitive global market. The competition-innovation linkage is empirically examined using Statistics Canada's Survey of Innovation 1999. The evidence shows competition has a positive and significant impact on both technology invention and technology adoption.

Issue Number: 2002001
Author(s): Tang, Jianmin
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PDFFebruary 15, 2002