Size, competition, and innovative activities: a developing world perspective
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Keywords
R&D; Product innovation; Firm size; market competition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L12 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2011-10-09 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2011-10-09 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-INO-2011-10-09 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2011-10-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-SBM-2011-10-09 (Small Business Management)
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