Are You the Right Partner ? R&D Agreement as a Screening Device

Chiara Conti () and Marco Marini

No 2017-09, DIAG Technical Reports from Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Abstract: This paper focusseses on the strategic use of firm's R&D agreements to overcome R&D inefficiencies in presence of asymmetric information and research spillovers. We introduce a duopoly game where initially one firm is not fully informed on its rival's R&D productivity.We show that, without R&D agreements, the usual underinvestment problem can be exacerbated by the presence of asymmetric information. However, by proposing a R&D agreement,the uninformed firm may not only gain from the internalization of R&D investment spillovers,but also use it strategically as a screening device to assess the true type of its rival. According to the model, firms are more likely to pursuit R&D agreements in presence of similar productivity and less when their productivity gap is high. This is consistent with the empirical findings highlighting the importance of firm's similarities for R&D collaborations.

Keywords: Asymmetric Information; Screening; Duopoly; R&D investments; R&D Spillover; R&D agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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