Organizational Design of R&D activities

Stefan Ambec and Michel Poitevin

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: This paper addresses the question of whether R&D should be carried out by an independent research unit or be produced in-house by the firm marketing the innovation. We define two organizational structures. In an integrated structure, the firm that markets the innovation also carries out and finances research leading to the innovation. In an independent structure, the firm that markets the innovation buys it from an independent research unit which is financed externally. We compare the two structures under the assumption that the research unit has some private information about the real cost of developing the new product. When development costs are negatively correlated with revenues from the innovation, the integrated structure dominates. The independent structure dominates in the opposite case.

Date: 2001-06-01
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Working Paper: Organizational Design of R&D Activities (2001)
Working Paper: Organizational Design of R&D Activities (2001)
Working Paper: Organizational Design of R&D Activities (2001)
Working Paper: Organizational Design of R & D Activities (2000)
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