Research On R&D Action Of Up-downstream Companies Based On Alliance Perspective

A strategic technology alliance is a special economic relationship established by firms to achieve their certain technologic innovation goals. In this relationship competition and cooperation coexist. With the development of economy and the accelerated pace of globalization, strategic technology alliances increase sharply and are becoming a new pattern of industrial organization. In this context, the study on strategic technology alliance, which is profounder and more profuse day by day, has become an indispensable part of management and industrial economics. At present, on the research of strategic technology alliance mostly concern horizontal technology alliance, involve with expansion of the A-J modeling, comparison of cooperation institution and analysis of Know-how. Although vertical strategic technology alliance is an important form of R&D research, the research on it has not attracted much attention.On the basis of literature review, this paper introduces vertical relationship into the analysis frame of R&D cooperation, and studies R&D action of up-downstream firms from two aspects including the technology alliance selecting and operating mechanisms. The paper draws some significant theoretical and practical conclusionsThe study in this paper mainly contributes in the following 6 fields.(1) According to lots of literatures in the filed of management and economics, this paper reviews the literatures along the advantage and motivation of cooperation R&D, and conflict management of cooperation R&D, and performance of cooperation R&D, as well as learning process of cooperation R&D and industry or welfare influence of cooperation R&D. The paper also illustrates the deficiencies of current literatures.(2) On the basis of relative definition, the research sets a logic analysis frame involving study scope and clue about full paper, which is primarily constructed on transaction cost, game theory, and non-cooperative oligopoly theory.(3) Considering the duopoly structure of up-down industry, this paper introduces vertical relationship into classical A-J model, and contrast the discrepancy of R&D level, R&D performance, and profit in different R&D modes by the means of game theory and comparative static analysis and simulation. It makes conclusion that there maybe exists conflict in selecting the R&D cooperation mode between up-downstream firms.(4) Under the background of random R&D based on duopoly structure of up-down industry, this paper expands the R&D race model, and analyzes the influence on the profit and welfare of firms under the different R&D mode because of the changes in technology spillovers and patent protect.(5) Expanding the cost-sharing mechanism, this paper studies the influence of different cost-sharing mechanism on the expected RJVs scale by the means of two-stage dynamic game theory. The paper also analyzes the R & D cost-sharing mechanism choice of firms and policy maker on the basis of considering influence on industrial profit and welfare.(6) Through comparing R&D level, profit and welfare between the floating input price contract bringing RRC effect and fixed input price contract without RRC effect, this paper analyzes the influence on RRC effect because of up-downstream changes in industrial structure and then makes a conclusion that RRC effect can incent innovation under some condition.Finally, the paper makes summary, and shows the shortage, main innovative results and future study.