The Equilibrium Analysis Of Technology Transfer In Cooperative R&D

The advancement and the innovation of the technology become one of the most important factors of the corporation's development in today's dog-eat-dog society. The trend of the technology development and the evolvement of the pattern of the technology innovation have indicated that cooperative R&D is becoming an important way to the technology development. One problem not to be sneezed at is the relationship of cooperative R&D between corporations in the industry. On one hand, this relationship is based on the benefit to all the participators. The corporations are willing to join the cooperation. On the other hand, the corporations become rivals in the market. So they prefer to keep their private technology to keep their competitive predominance. Then a trade-off appears in the process of the private technology transfer. Our paper applies a two-period Cournot duopoly model to simulate the cooperation and the competition. The Equilibrium of the private technology transfer is studied in the Game theory.A mathematical model based on the cooperative R&D between the competed corporations is set up to study the Equilibrium of the private technology transfer. When the cost function is symmetrical, the rates of the technology transfer are above 50 percent. So the cooperation is effective. Then nonlinear market demand is introduced to the model. While the price flexibility equals to 1, the rates of the technology transfer also equal to 1. In another word, the corporations will transfer all their private technology. At last, based on the model, we introduce two points——the asymmetry of the cost function and the production differentiation. The former brings us that the Equilibriums are given by two different equations that contain a market factor. This factor affects the Equilibriums. Meanwhile, we point out that the high-tech corporation is more likely to transfer his technology while the low-tech corporation is the opposite. Our study also indicates that the rate of the technology transfer has no business with the production differentiation.