On the coexistence of innovators and imitators

• Autores: Roy Cerqueti, Fabio Tramontana, Marco Ventura
• Localización: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, ISSN-e 1873-5509, Vol. 90, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 487-496
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article develops a model laying a foundation for the idea that the relationships between competitors in the knowledge diffusion market can be described by a Lotka�Volterra system. The model can accommodate both the scenario of prey�predator and that of competition between innovators and imitators. Analytic results and numerical simulations show that a stable coexistence equilibrium is feasible under both scenarios. The work also discusses the conditions under which these results are achievable.