| There exists external reference, that is technology spillover when multinational companies transfer technology .And imitation is the major way of technology spillover .So analyzing the influence of imitation upon the mode of technology transfer ,and further choosing the best mode of technology transfer are the important measures for multinational companies keeping active competition .This paper observes multinational companies how to choose the best mode of technology transfer among export ,licensing and FDI and technology level under the threats of host companies' imitation. The game theory analysis is the major methods used in this paper .There has two innovations as follows:(1) Analyzing the mode of technology from the host companies' imitation(2) Setting up a improved dynamic game model based on others' performance embodying in tow points .The first is introducing imitation cost during technology diffusion .The second ,there has possibilities of imitation in the mode of export and FDI.The important conclusions are as follows :when the imitation cost is not high ,and is not the believable threat, the best choice for the multinational company is licensing the newest technology to host company. And when there exists the threat of imitation, the multinational company has two ways to impede technology diffusion .The first is turning to export or FDI .The second is still choosing licensing ,but licensing older technology as to decreasing the incentive of host companies to imitate .Both of the ways have loss .The best choice for MNC is the mode which the loss is the most least .The loss is transportation cost and tariff under export, the fixed cost under FDI ,and united profit effect and the profit loss for stopping imitation under licensing .As the most important influencing factor of imitation cost ,patent protection affects the strategy of MNC .The total welfare of host country influenced by MNC best strategy is also relevant to patent protection . |
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