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Protecting Intermediate Innovations When Ideas Are Scarce: Patents or Secrecy?

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patenting an intermediate research innovation can lead to competition for the development of a final commercial innovation and potentially induce wasteful duplicative R&D efforts. This study examines the effects of different protection strategies and patent life on the incentives to protect an intermediate innovation by considering a two‐stage
Bonwoo Koo, Jangho Yang, Brian D. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Game-theoretic perspective of Ping-Pong Protocol

, 2018
We analyse Ping-Pong protocol from the point of view of a game. The analysis helps us in understanding the different strategies of a sender and an eavesdropper to gain the maximum payoff in the game. The study presented here characterizes strategies that
Kaur, Hargeet, Kumar, Atul
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Optimal confrontation position selecting games model and its application to one-on-one air combat

Defence Technology
In the air combat process, confrontation position is the critical factor to determine the confrontation situation, attack effect and escape probability of UAVs.
Zekun Duan, Genjiu Xu, Xin Liu, Jiayuan Ma, Liying Wang   +4 more
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Driver’s lane selection model based on multi-player dynamic game

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2019
With a view to the background of Internet of Things, the vehicle group situation, especially the propensity of different drivers, and the corresponding vehicle types were given a comprehensive consideration on the basis of the factors which influence ...
Xiao-yuan Wang, Ya-qi Liu, Fang Wang, Zhi-guo Liu, Hai-xia Zhao, Jun-Feng Xin   +5 more
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Buyer Power and the Effect of Vertical Integration on Innovation

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our article investigates the impact of vertical integration (without foreclosure) on innovation. We compare cases where either (i) two manufacturers or (ii) a manufacturer and a vertically integrated retailer invest. Then, the independent manufacturer(s) and the retailer bargain over nonlinear contracts before selling to consumers.
Claire Chambolle, Morgane Guignard
wiley   +1 more source

Three-Stage Dynamic Games of Government-Park-Visitor in Visitor Education Intervention

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2014
The government-park-visitor three-stage multiplayers dynamic game G(S1m,S2n,S3k,RG,R,U) is established to solve the significant problem regarding the investment in the visitor education.
Dongping Wei, Shouwen Wen, Diabate Ardjouman, Yizeng Chen   +3 more
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A Novel Antagonistic Weapon-Target Assignment Model Considering Uncertainty and its Solution Using Decomposition Co-Evolution Algorithm

IEEE Access, 2019
The weapon-target assignment (WTA) problem is a crucial decision issue in the process of cooperative aerial warfare (CAW). The decision strategy of fighter teams involved in the CAW is susceptible to the influence of the enemy fire attack and electronic ...
Qian Pan, Deyun Zhou, Yongchuan Tang, Xiaoyang Li   +3 more
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Serial Investing and Strategic Commitment in Markets With Unknown Competitors

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how serial investors who regularly face unknown competitors attempt to make their projects dominant. Innovating in new markets often involves uncertainty over the nature of the final product and who the key competitors will be. Such projects also have long‐term funding needs, so a commitment to provide the necessary funds imparts a ...
Naveen Khanna, Richmond Mathews
wiley   +1 more source

Sophisticated Players and Sophisticated Agents [PDF]

A sophisticated player is an individual who takes the action of the opponents, in a strategic situation, as determined by decision of rational opponents, and acts accordingly. A sophisticated agent is rational in the choice of his action, but ignores the
Rustichini, A.
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One‐Way Versus Two‐Way Postacquisition Integration Efforts: Theory and Evidence

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop a theory of postacquisition integration that distinguishes between one‐way (acquirer‐only) and two‐way (mutual) effort strategies. We argue that the method of payment—cash versus shares—may serve as an ex ante commitment mechanism to a particular integration strategy, where cash deals align with unilateral effort, and share deals ...
Albert Banal‐Estañol, Joseph A. Clougherty, Jo Seldeslachts, Florian Szücs   +3 more
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