Future of US-China Relations: Conflict, Competition or Cooperation?

China-us S&t Cooperation: past Achievements and Future Challenges1

At the time that science and technology (S&T) relations between China and the US were initiated in 1978, there was much interest in the US in having the S&T relationship contribute to the building of a broad “web of relationships” between the two countries. In many ways, this goal has been met. We have seen science and technology make notable contributions to the economic relationships between ...

Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict

We study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the firms’ investment in complementary R&D. We ask whether profit maximizing complementors will fully cooperate...

Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation ? ∗

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus closed source (CS) business models are analyzed in a general two-stage model that combines aspects of...

Scientific cooperation and conflict management in U.S.-China relations from 1978 to the present.

Dynamics of Two-Actor Cooperation-Competition Conflict Models

We present a nonlinear ordinary differential equation model of the conflict between two actors, who could be individuals, groups, or nations. The state of each actor depends on its own state in isolation, its previous state in time, its inertia to change, and the positive feedback (cooperation) or negative feedback (competition) from the other actor. We analytically determined the stability of ...