界定出寡头市场上潜在技术主导厂商的R&D投资效率边界,分析了不同R&D投资效率条件下厂商的创新动机.研究结果表明:当潜在技术主导厂商具有高效R&D投资率时,网络外部性的增大会增进其R&D动机,而兼容性和用户学习成本的增大会削弱其R&D动机,当潜在技术主导厂商具有低效R&D投资率时,与上述情况相反.
This paper originally defined the boundary of efficiency of R&D investment (ERI) of the poten tialtechnologicalleader's, and analyzed its incentive to innovate with various ERI. The study shows that, when the leader firm's ERI is "high", its incentive of R&D will increase in network externality but decrease in compatibility and learning cost. When its ERI is "low", it gets the opposite conclusion.