Profiting from Asymmetric R&D Alliances: Coopetitive Games and Firm's Strategies

The core argument in this paper is that the study of asymmetric R&D alliances, that are those between Young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive framework which consider both collaboration and competition. We draw upon the literature on asymmetric R&D collaboration and coopetition to propose a mathematical model for the coopetitive games which is particularly suitable for exploring asymmetric R&D alliances.