Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93876 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 89
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper reconsiders the explanation of R&D subsidies by Spencer and Brander (1983) and others by allowing firms to license their innovations and to pool their R&D investments. We show that in equilibrium R&D joint ventures are formed and licensing occurs in a way that eliminates the strategic benefits of R&D investment in the export oligopoly game. Nevertheless, national governments are driven to subsidize their own national firms in order to increase their strength in the joint venture bargaining game. Therefore, our analysis suggests an alternative explanation of the observed proliferation of R&D subsidies.
Subjects: 
patent licensing
industrial organization
R&D subsidies
research joint ventures
innovation policy
JEL: 
L13
O34
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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