Revisiting incremental product innovations in the food manufacturing industry: An empirical study on the effect of intellectual property rights
Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru: Tomofumi Miyanoshita: Daisuke Kanama
『Journal of Economic Structures』 (2020/04/20)
The highly competitive and mature food industry has long been process innovation-oriented while largely neglecting product/technological innovation. However, recent innovation debates have raised two issues. First, imitations of product innovations likely underestimate the value of innovation in this industry; second, exaggerations of …