How the institutional and technological environments affect the competitive intensity in high-tech industries.

Abstract

the objective of this thesis is to explore how institutional quality, together with the diffusion of Internet use, the propensity to research and develop new technologies, the presence of patents and the level of proportions can influence the competitive intensity between businesses. To achieve this aim, an empirical analysis was conducted covering a period of ten years, from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2019. The thesis is divided into three chapters: the first offers an overview of the literature on the concept of competitive intensity and the main measures used to analyze the level of competitive intensity. The second chapter focuses more specifically on the drivers of competitive intensity and on the literature on the impacts of some important drivers on the markets; in particular, the impacts of the institutional structure of emerging and industrialized countries and of innovative technologies on market competition will be examined in depth. Finally, the third and final chapter presents an empirical analysis aimed at analyzing the influence of institutional quality and technological innovation on the competitive intensity between companies in the tablet market. In particular, the impacts of six different independent variables (rule of law; GDP per capita; individuals who use the Internet; research and development expenditure; residents patent applications; good ICT imports) will be evaluated with respect to the dependent variable "tablet screen resolution". ”. The empirical results obtained from the analysis are then discussed.