Horizontal exchange of information - institutional impact on entrepreneurial activity

• Authors: Patricia Kotnik , Mitja Kovač
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Providing incentives for technological innovation (spurring the generation and utilisation of productive information), entrepreneurship and co-operation, and deterring opportunism are of the utmost importance for economic growth and maximisation of social welfare. This paper offers a legal evaluation of the optimal entrepreneurial incentive mechanisms under current anti-competitive enforcement practices and provides a legal and economic analysis of its economic and business impacts.

Keywords

EN

competition law; information exchange; entrepreneurship; efficiency; innovation

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 34-40

Dates

published

2012-11-23

Contributors

author

Patricia Kotnik

• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, Slovenia

author

Mitja Kovač

• Prague Development Center, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2012.15