Product Innovation, Diffusion and Endogenous Growth

Michael Klein and Fuat Sener
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Fuat Sener: Union College

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023, vol. 48, 178-201

Abstract: We develop a model of Schumpeterian growth featuring a stochastic diffusion process where the rate of commercial success of product innovations is endogenously determined by advertising intensity. We consider both informative advertising, which young technological leaders use to increase the probability of diffusion, and defensive advertising, which incumbents use to prevent the diffusion of competing products. Economic growth depends positively on the arrival rate of product innovations and the diffusion rate of innovations into the mainstream market. We show that R&D subsidies shift relative investment incentives towards innovation and away from diffusion. This creates an inverted U-shaped relationship between R&D subsidies and both economic growth and welfare as innovations arrive more frequently, but fewer commercialize successfully. We find that advertising subsidies increase diffusion, growth, and welfare when advertising is purely informative. In the presence of defensive advertising, advertising subsidies lead to socially wasteful increases in resources devoted to advertising without large increases in diffusion, reducing growth and welfare. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Innovation; Diffusion; Commercialization; Advertising; Marketing; R&D subsidies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M30 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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