Knowledge Spillovers, Competition and Innovation Success
基于瑞士企业样本，研究发现知识溢出与创新产品的商业成功正相关，但这种关系仅在中等竞争程度的市场中显著，在垄断或完全竞争市场中不显著。
Abstract We study the relationship between a patent‐based measure of knowledge spillovers that calculates technological proximity based on technologically relevant firms and innovation success. We find – for a representative sample of Swiss firms – that knowledge spillovers have a positive and significant association with the commercial success of innovative products. The paper shows the importance of market conditions for the relationship of spillovers with innovation performance: It is only positive and significant in markets with a medium number of competitors in the main product market, but not in monopolistic or polypolistic market structures.