Does innovation-orientation lead to retail industry growth? Empirical evidence from patent analysis

Innovation drivers in retail industry

Although in recent years research in innovation management in retail industries have increased drastically, most of these industries have focused only on addressing consumers’ acceptance of the most effective novel systems. For these reasons, a deeper understanding is needed in three main areas: the innovation management approaches in retail industry, the degree of innovation heterogeneity, and...

Innovation Strategies, Performance Diversity and Development: An Empirical Analysis in Iran Construction and Housing Industry

Innovation strategy is the basis of success in innovation and performance improvement. This paper represents a model related to the most important innovation strategies which have a significant impact on performance of industries. Then, it examines the relationships between innovation strategies and diversity and development of the performance. So, the empirical research was carried out in Iran...

Does Institutional Quality Impact Innovation? Evidence from Cross-Country Patent Grant Data

When Does Patent Protection Stimulate Innovation?

Patents act as an incentive to innovate. However, as this paper argues, patents can lead the patent holder to rest on his laurels and at the same time discourage some innovators from innovating, reducing knowledge spillovers. The combined result of the above suggests an inverse U relationship between patent protection and output

The Relationship Between Innovation and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the Taiwanese Manufacturing Industry

Some researchers demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between competition and innovation; however, others depict that it is negative. Two contradictory results exist at the same time. Moreover, there are studies which show that the relationship is nonlinear. This study is to explore this relationship by examining the empirical data in Taiwan. We use Curve Estimation and Logistic Re...