Optimal R&D Levels When Firm J Benefits From Firm i's Inventive Activity

John Hartwick

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: We amend the static model of industry structure in Dasgupta and Stiglitz to include external benefits from a firm's R&D. Now "the market" under invests in R&D relative to the social optimum. The work of Mansfield suggests such external benefits are pervasive.

Pages: 9
Date: 1984
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