Pricing Strategy for Capturing Innovation Rents
An innovator with a significant cost advantage can adopt a specific pricing strategy to maximize profits. They can either match the higher price of their competitors or slightly undercut it. This approach enables them to sell their entire production output, resulting in profits that are substantially greater than those of competing firms.
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