Atallah, Gamal - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 7, pp. 559-586
The paper proposes a new type of R&D cooperation between firms endowed with asymmetric spillovers, which we call symmetric Research Joint Venture (RJV) cartelization, based on reciprocity in information exchange. In this setting, firms coordinate their R&D expenditures and also share...