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Page 1: Technology, R&D, and Efficiency Chapter 11W McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

Technology, R&D, and Efficiency

Chapter 11W

McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Chapter Objectives

• Invention, innovation, and technological diffusion

• Furthering technological advance• Optimal amount of R&D• Benefits from innovation• Market structure and technological

advance• Technological advance and

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Technological Advance

• Occurs in the very long run

• Occurs in response to incentives

• Arises from firm rivalry

• Firms seek new profit opportunities

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Invention-Innovation-Diffusion

• Three step process• Invention

–Patent• Innovation

–Product innovation–Process innovation

• Diffusion• Requires R&D expenditure

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U.S. R&D Expenditures

Source: National Science Foundation

BasicResearch

AppliedResearch

(invention)

4%

22%

74%

Development(innovation and

imitation)

Composition of business outlays 2006

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Source: National Science Foundation

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R&D Expenditures

Total R&D expenditures as a percentageof GDP, 2006

Sweden

Japan

United States

Germany

France

Canada

United Kingdom

Italy

Russia11W-6

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Role of Entrepreneurs

• Entrepreneurs–Bear financial risk

• Other innovators• Forming start-ups• Innovating within existing firms• Anticipating the future• Exploiting university and

government scientific research11W-7

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Firm’s Optimal R&D Amount

• Marginal benefit and marginal cost• Sources of funds

–Bank loans–Bonds–Retained earnings–Venture capital–Personal savings

• Interest-rate cost of funds • Expected-rate-of-return

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• Three important points

• Optimal vs. affordable R&D

• Expected, not guaranteed, returns

• Adjustments

Firm’s Optimal R&D Amount

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Increased Profits

• Increased revenue via product innovation–Importance of price

–Unsuccessful new products

–Product improvements

• Reduced cost via process innovation

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Making greater production possible at lower costs

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Imitation and R&D Incentives

• Imitation problem• Fast-second strategy• Benefits of being first

–Patents–Copyrights and trademarks–Brand-name recognition–Trade secrets and learning by

doing–Time lags–Profitable buyouts 11W-13

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Distribution of U.S. Patents

Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Top 10 foreign countriesNumber of U.S. patents, 1963-2006

Japan (658,827)

Germany (295,110)

U.K. (123,371)

France (110,839)

Canada (77,594)

Taiwan (58,162)

Switzerland (52,201)

South Korea (44,125)

Italy (43,668)

Sweden (38,456)

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Role of Market Structure

• Which type of market structure is best suited to technological advance–Pure competition–Monopolistic competition–Oligopoly–Pure monopoly

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Inverted-U Theory

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Technological Advance and Efficiency

• Productive efficiency–Increasing productivity of inputs

• Allocative efficiency–A more-preferred mix of goods and

services

• Creative destruction

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Key Terms

• technological advance

• very long run

• invention

• patent

• innovation

• product innovation

• process innovation

• diffusion

• start-ups

• venture capital

• interest-rate cost-of-funds curve

• expected-rate-of-return curve

• optimal amount of R&D

• imitation problem

• fast-second strategy

• inverted-U theory of R&D

• creative destruction

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The Demand For Resources

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