Innovation Races with the Possibility of Failure

Subhasish Chowdhury and Stephen Martin ()

No 2011-16, Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) from Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Abstract: The standard innovation race specification assumes a memoryless exponential distribution for the time to success of an R&D project. This specification implies that a project succeeds, eventually, with probability one. We introduce a positive probability that an R&D project fails. With this modified specification, we compare the non- cooperative and cooperative R&D in terms of innovation effort, consumer surplus, and net social welfare.

Keywords: innovation; research & development; R&D joint ventures; parallel research projects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10-01
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