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Product Innovation with Lumpy Investment
Kort, Peter; Chahim, M.; Grass, D.; Hartl, R.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: This paper considers a firm that has the option to undertake product innovations. For each product innovation … an initial investment. Finally, we show that when demand decreases over time and when fixed investment cost is higher … investment is delayed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091584
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A tutorial on the deterministic Impulse Control Maximum Principle: Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions
Chahim, Mohammed; Hartl, Richard F.; Kort, Peter M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 1, pp. 18-26
This paper considers a class of optimal control problems that allows jumps in the state variable. We present the necessary optimality conditions of the Impulse Control Maximum Principle based on the current value formulation. By reviewing the existing impulse control models in the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574158
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The Deterministic Impulse Control Maximum Principle in Operations Research : Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions (replaces CentER DP 2011-052)
Kort, Peter; Chahim, M.; Hartl, R.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
This paper considers a class of optimal control problems that allows jumps in the state variable. We present the necessary optimality conditions of the Impulse Control Maximum Principle based on the current value formulation. By reviewing the existing impulse control models in the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090959
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Product innovation with lumpy investment
Chahim, M.; Grass, D. A.; Hartl, R. F.; Kort, P. M. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616356
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Product Innovation with Lumpy Investment
Chahim, Mohammed - 2012
This paper considers a firm that has the option to undertake product innovations. For each product innovation the firm … investment. Finally, we show that when demand decreases over time and when fixed investment cost is higher, that the firm invests … less throughout the planning period, the time between two investments increases and that the first investment is delayed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100792
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Product and quality innovations : an optimal control approach
Bondarev, Anton - 2010
In the suggested paper an attempt to combine two different aspects of innovative activity which are known as product and process innovations is made. The main objective of the paper is to demonstrate the importance of interdependence between these two types of innovative activity through means...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736540
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Product innovation incentives by an incumbent firm : a dynamic analysis
Dawid, Herbert; Keoula, Michel Y.; Kopel, Michael; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 117 (2015), pp. 411-438
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Optimal dynamic product development and launch for a network of customers
Sunar, Nur; Birge, John R.; Vitavasiri, Sinit - In: Operations research 67 (2019) 3, pp. 770-790
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Smart products : liability, timing of market introduction, and investments in product safety
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2019
This paper addresses the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart products such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). We analyze how the liability regime affects innovative activities, as well as the timing of market introduction and market penetration of such smart products....
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Mergers and investments in new products
Jullien, Bruno; Lefouili, Yassine - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013491066