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Adoption and diffusion of cost reducing innovations : Cournot competition in duopoly

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  • Raouf, BOUCEKKINE

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales(IRES))

  • Omar, LICANDRO

    (EUI, European University Institute (Firenze-Italy))

  • Antonio, MINNITI

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) and Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Belgium)

Abstract

This note analyses the adoption and diffusion of innovations in a horizontally differentiated Cournot duopoly in which firms have to choose the dates for adopting a cost-reducing new technology like in Reinganum (1981a). We prove that product differentiation crucially matters in the diffusion pattern of the innovation and in the comparison between the adoption timing in the decentralized economy Vs the social optimum .

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  • Raouf, BOUCEKKINE & Omar, LICANDRO & Antonio, MINNITI, 2004. "Adoption and diffusion of cost reducing innovations : Cournot competition in duopoly," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2004027, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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    Keywords

    Adoption; diffusion; differentiated duopoly;
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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