1 论文标题：

Product Market Competition and Innovation: What Can We Learn from Economic Theory?
2 作者信息:

Zhiqi Chen

Department of Economics, Carleton University

3 出处:

Zhiqi Chen. Product Market Competition and Innovation: What Can We Learn from Economic Theory?[J]. Front. Econ. China, 2017, 12(3): 450-464.

链接：

URL:

http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-006-017-0019-2 http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/Y2017/V12/I3/450

4 摘要:

产品市场竞争与创新：经济理论带给我们的启示

陈智琦

卡尔顿大学经济系

摘要：通过文献综述，本文力争澄清产品市场竞争和企业创新动力之间备受争议的关系。本文表明，竞争与创新动力之间不存在一个稳健的关系。因此，继续争论竞争是否促进或阻碍了创新徒劳无益。一个更为有效的方法是对创新前的竞争和创新后的竞争进行区分，因为它可以调和文献中诸多貌似矛盾的结论。文献综述带给我们的另一重要启示便是，竞争与创新之间的关系依赖于引起竞争加剧的诱因。

Product Market Competition and Innovation:

What Can We Learn from Economic Theory?

Zhiqi Chen

Department of Economics, Carleton University

Abstract: By means of aliterature review, this paper strives to provide some clarity on the much-debated relationship between product market competition and firms’ incentives to innovate. It shows that in the literature there does not exist a robust relationship between competition and incentives to innovate. Therefore, it would be futile to continue the debate over whether competition stimulates or hinders innovation. A more useful approach is to make a distinction between pre-innovation competition and post-innovation competition, as it provides a way for reconciling many of the seemingly contradictory findings from the literature. Another important insight from the literature is that the relationship between competition and innovation depends on the source of increased competition.