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De l'indivisibilité à la divisibilité de la R&D industrielle

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  • Virginie Jacquier-Roux

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[fre] L'objectif de cet article est de fournir les bases d'une analyse de la divisibilité de la recherche-développement (R&D) dans la firme, c'est-à-dire la possibilité de répartir la capacité globale de R&D en plusieurs projets parallèles et distincts. Pour cela, on procède à un examen de la notion d'indivisibilité, telle qu'elle apparaît dans la littérature économique d'abord, débouchant sur la question des barrières à l'entrée, et telle qu'elle peut être appliquée au cas spécifique de l'activité de R&D ensuite. On constate alors que les relations entre indivisibilité et barrières à l'entrée prennent des formes très différentes selon le parti-pris théorique quant à la nature du produit de la R&D. Dans une perspective intégrant au premier plan les apprentissages, on peut enfin aborder la question de la divisibilité en montrant la pluralité de ses déterminants : techniques, organisationnels, économiques. [eng] This paper aims to give some bases for an analysis of the divisibility of R&D in the firm, i.e. the possibility of dispatching the global research capacity between several distinct and parallel projects. We study the notion of indivisibility, as it is treated in the economic literature first, leading to the question of entry barriers, and as it may be applied to the specifie activity of R&D then. We see that the links between indivisibility and entry barriers have different shapes according to the theoretical conception of the nature of the R&D output. When considering learning at the main place, it is possible finally to deal with the question of divisibility of R&D, and to examine its three determinants : the technical, organizational and economie ones.

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  • Virginie Jacquier-Roux, 1994. "De l'indivisibilité à la divisibilité de la R&D industrielle," Revue d'Économie Industrielle, Programme National Persée, vol. 68(1), pages 43-59.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recind:rei_0154-3229_1994_num_68_1_1526
    DOI: 10.3406/rei.1994.1526
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    1. Igor G. Pospelov & Stanislav A. Radionov, 2015. "Optimal Dividend Policy When Cash Surplus Follows The Telegraph Process," HSE Working papers WP BRP 48/FE/2015, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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