The argument that concentration of market power enhances research and development efforts may be weak?

10. The argument that concentration of market power enhances research and development efforts may be weak because:
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Question 10 answers
A. Monopolies cannot afford basic research.
B. A monopoly may have no clear incentive to pursue new research and development.
C. No one has attempted to gather any empirical evidence.
D. No existing monopoly has a research and development program.

B. A monopoly may have no clear incentive to pursue new research and development.

A monopoly is concerned with profit maximization, as any firm is. But a firm with competition (not counting one in an industry with homogeneous products) has an incentive for research and development: to try to get ahead of the competition. A monopolist has no such incentive.