What's the aim for competition policy: Optimizing market structure or encouraging innovative behaviors?

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 175-187

  Gaffard, Jean Luc ^a   Quéré, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Competition; Information; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544453820     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-005-0014-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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