is the impact of competition on cooperation. While cooperation has the benefit of avoiding duplication, it may have an … relative progress during the R&D process and the intensity of product market competition. The design is based on a modified … stay in the race, cooperation unravels as firms move forward in the discovery process and as monopoly profits become …

on classical cluster model and its well-known agglomeration positive externalities and on benefits of cooperation. After …-exhaustive conditions: (i) the capacity to coordinate and to incitate cooperation in R&D; (ii) the capacity to favor production and …

dynamic approach allows us to analyze the interaction between how close the firms are to product market competition and how … intense that competition is. If product market competition is relatively moderate, the lagging firm is expected never to drop … market competition is relatively intense, the incentives to share may increase with progress. These results illustrate under …

design and test a provision mechanism which utilizes rank competition to mitigate free-riding in impure public goods. In our … receive restricted access (a lower share). In a laboratory experiment Rank-Order-VCM elicits median contributions equal to the … ranks, the contributions are significantly lower and decline over time. We thus provide evidence of rank competition, in …