Strategic Investment to Reduce Price Sensitivity
A new company is entering the competitive wireless headphone market. They are considering two strategies to make their product's demand less sensitive to price changes.
Strategy 1: Invest heavily in a marketing campaign to build strong brand recognition and desirability. Strategy 2: Invest heavily in R&D to include a unique, patented feature that competitors cannot replicate.
Evaluate which of these two strategies is likely to be more effective in reducing the price sensitivity of demand for the headphones. In your evaluation, explain the mechanism through which each strategy works and justify your choice with economic reasoning.
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