not directly benefit them - to slow down competition. By disclosing IP, innovators indirectly induce rivals to wait and …

four separate organization setups (Full Competition, Semi-collusion in Production, Semi-collusion in R&D and Full Collusion …

market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g. firms …-cooperating firms if spillovers are sufficiently large. The degree of market competition is a key determinant of the effects of research … cooperation on research efforts, implying that existing models which assume perfect competition might be too restrictive. …