The Relationship between Profitability, Innovation and Technology Gap: A Basic Model

This paper introduces a model of innovation that explains some of the stylized facts presented in recent empirical literature. In the model, firms choose R&D expenditures that maximize their expected profits under the assumption that R&D expenditures of firms might be constrained by the size...

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Main Author: Krčál Ondřej
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-09-01
Series:Review of Economic Perspectives
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2014-0011