Prague Economic Papers 2013, 22(4):474-486 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.463
Innovation Under Spatial Duopoly
- Institute of Industrial Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, P. R. China (pynie2013@163.com).
Innovation is an important topic in economics. This paper highlights duopoly innovation under the Hotelling model with game theory approaches. This paper argues that market power, as measured by the cost advantage of a dominant firm over its rival, serves to enhance the incentive to innovate in a Hotelling model of spatial competition. This result implies that a firm with cost advantage will have a larger incentive than its rivals to further its cost advantage as new opportunities for innovation arise thereby implying that innovation increases concentration. This result is in contrast to the result obtained by Holmes et al. (2012) who use the Betrand model to show that "market power" lowers the incentive to innovate. We think that the inelastic demand causes this economic phenomenon.
Klíčová slova: game theory, innovation, spatial duopoly, case study
JEL classification: C61, C72, D4, L1
Zveřejněno: 1. leden 2013 Zobrazit citaci
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