Competition in Product Design: An Experiment Exploring Innovation Behavior
29 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2009
Abstract
We experimentally investigate competition for innovations in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller firms on a duopoly market, investing in risky search. Successful innovations resulting thereof are rewarded via temporary monopoly rents. Classifying investor types reveals that most of them invest according to objective investment criteria, such as probability of search success and cash flow, as well as to non-pecuniary criteria, such as intensity of competition and relative performance. For a minority, however, no such correlation is ascertained.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Cantner, Uwe and Güth, Werner and Nicklisch, Andreas and Weiland, Torsten, Competition in Product Design: An Experiment Exploring Innovation Behavior. Metroeconomica, Vol. 60, Issue 4, pp. 724-752, November 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1487782 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-999X.2009.04057.x
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Feedback
Feedback to SSRN
If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday.