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innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …
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&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process … emerge as substitutes both in theory and in the data. …
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We analyze a model of cost-reducing R&D and compatibility decisions by two platforms. After an exogenous improvement in the efficiency of R&D, each platform has a heightened incentive to make its software incompatible with the rival's hardware device to avoid being dominated in the hardware...
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This chapter describes the market for pharmaceuticals, which exceeded $500 million in sales in 2010. The industry is also characterized by extensive regulation of almost every activity, from product development through manufacturing and marketing, which we summarize. We next describe the...
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We study the optimal design of an innovation contest where the designer wants to induce product variety and faces a moral hazard problem. The innovators have different areas of expertise and may differ in their flexibility to adopt approaches outside their specialties. When the suppliers are...
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competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a two-stage game with a deterministic Research and Development (R&D) process … outputs simultaneously. We show that the inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation occurs if … competition is affected by the number of technology followers. However, the presence of more technology leaders decreases …
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