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Does competition increase or decrease the innovation gap between the best and the rest?

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Spyros Arvanitis
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Pierre Mohnen
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Martin Woerter *
DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107577delete
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This paper examines whether competition leads to more or less concentration of innovation efforts and innovation outputs among Swiss firms. Using firm panel data from ten waves of the Swiss Innovation Surveys and unconditional quantile regressions, we find that increased perceived competition reduces the dispersion of innovation. The effect is mostly operating on the extensive margin. Our estimates further suggest that R&D and product innovation are more responsive to perceived non-price competition than to price competition whereas process innovation is more responsive to price competition.
Keywords:
Competition
Innovation dispersion
Switzerland

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
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2.3
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262
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swiss federal institutes of technology domain
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795
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Citations: 11
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