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work_tcdyn7iejrchvfcipqjollbp3y	Enrico Valdani	Strategies of Imitation: An Insight	2007.0	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5146	329	51	b) incumbents, feeling threatened by the innovation in their market and deciding to imitate it, either immediately or after trying to counter it to defend their original conducts. The imitation game we call parasite imitation takes place when the imitator follows the innovator's lead by reproducing a similar, successful standard (a so-called "dominant design", as in Utterback, 1996). As said, imitation concerns not only products, but also strategies, organization models and processes that bring market success to the innovator. through parasite imitation strategies for products and successful brand names. The ease of an imitator entering a new market also depends on the experience and knowledge gained in the manufacture and sales of products related or near the innovation. Successful Strategies for Product Imitation Imitation can be pursued with several ways of market conduct necessary for the follower to stimulate and persuade customers to run the risk of abandoning the products or services of the innovator 	./cache/work_tcdyn7iejrchvfcipqjollbp3y.pdf	./txt/work_tcdyn7iejrchvfcipqjollbp3y.txt