Hiding or sharing? Technology upgrade, technology spillover and information asymmetry
Hiding or sharing? Technology upgrade, technology spillover and information asymmetry
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10.1051/ro/2022092
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2022-06
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Guanmei Liu;Haijun Wang;Xiao Lang;Kaichen Yu
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作者：
Guanmei Liu;Haijun Wang;Xiao Lang;Kaichen Yu
某个制造商（M1）通过投资对同一供应商的生产技术进行升级，而供应商（it）由于私下持有技术溢出信息，可能将升级后的技术溢出给竞争对手（M2）。本研究探讨供应商是否应该与M1分享技术溢出的信息。研究发现，在真实的技术溢出程度较高的情况下，无论供应商是否分享技术溢出信息，当生产成本较高、投资成本较低时，技术溢出不仅对M1造成伤害，而且对供应商和M2也造成伤害。因此，供给方实施技术溢出可能是不明智的，而M2有条件地搭技术溢出的便车可能是无利可图的。此外，当供应商在一定条件下将升级后的技术溢出给M2可以获得更多收益时，供应商应该共享（隐藏）技术溢出信息，如果供应商是低（高）溢出类型，且真实的技术溢出度福尔斯处于高范围，这种共享（隐藏）策略可能会为三方创造“三赢”结果。
One giant manufacturer (M1) upgrades a common supplier's production technology through investments, while the supplier (it), holding the technology spillover information privately, may spill the upgraded technology over to a rival manufacturer (M2). This study examines whether the supplier should share the information of technology spillover with M1. We first find technology spillover hurts not only M1 but also the supplier and M2, when the production cost is high and the investment cost is low at a high level of the real technology spillover degree, no matter whether the supplier shares the technology spillover information or not. As such, it may be unwise for the supplier to implement technology spillover and unprofitable for M2 to take a free ride of technology spillover conditionally. Furthermore, when the supplier can receive more payoffs by spilling the upgraded technology over to M2 under certain conditions, it should share (hide) the technology spillover information, and such sharing (hiding) strategy may create a `win-win-win' outcome for the three players, if the supplier is of low (high)-spillover type and the real degree of technology spillover falls into a high range.