Equilibrium Innovation Ecosystems: The Dark Side of Collaborating with Complementors

Abstract

The recent years have exhibited a burst in the amount of collaborative activities among …rms selling complementary products. This paper aims at providing a ra- for their respective components in a noncooperative manner. In equilibrium, …rms end up forming as many collaboration ties as it is possible, although they would all prefer a scenario where collaboration were forbidden. In addition, a social planner would also prefer such a scenario to the one arising in equilibrium. We show that the result that collaboration is ine¢ cient for …rms and society does not depend on whether collaboration ties are formed in an exclusive manner: in fact, exclusivity would only worsen the situation.

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