Horizontal and Vertical R&D Cooperation

Arbeitspapier

This paper introduces a second, vertically related industry into the usual one-industry oligopoly framework of cooperative R&D investment between firms operating on the same product market. R&D efforts are affected by intra- and inter-industry R&D spillovers. Horizontal and vertical R&D cooperation scenarios are compared to R&D competition. It turns out that vertical R&D cooperation is usually the only stable equilibrium in the sense that no firm has an incentive to chose any other R&D scenario. Empirical implications concerning the relationship between R&D intensities and R&D spillovers are derived and empirical evi-dence is given using data of German manufacturing firms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CoFE Discussion Paper ; No. 00/02

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
• Subject: Industrielle Forschung ; Forschungskooperation ; Oligopol ; Vertikale Konzentration ; Spillover-Effekt ; Innovationswettbewerb ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Inkmann, Joachim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)
• (where): Konstanz
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/85237
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-4174
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET