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Fertility, Appropriability

research and development - depends on fertility and appropriability  

  • spending on research leads to new ideas >> not the same as spending on machines or labor
  • fertility - how R&D spending results to new ideas/products
    • depends on interaction between basic research (searching for general principles/results) and applied research (applying results to specific uses)
    • takes time to exploit full potential of major discoveries
  • appropriability - how much firms can profit from own R&D
    • too much research fertility >> doesn't mean much to discover new things >> little payoff >> small appropriability
    • protection (patents) - gives advantage to firm who makes the discover first
  • too much protection >> R&D stalls >> difficult for other firms to build on past discoveries
  • too little protection >> firms don't have as much incentive to keep trying
  • less technologically advanced >> usually poorer patent projection >> typically more users than producers of new technology
Subject: 
Economics
Subject X2: 
Economics

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