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Dynamic efficiency

Say what dynamic efficiency is and why supernormal profit can pay for it

Key terms
Dynamic efficiency
Dynamic efficiency is the rate at which firms reduce their real costs, or improve their product quality, over time through new technologies or processes.
Static efficiency
Static efficiency is how much output can be produced from a given stock of resources at a certain point in time.

Kinds of innovation

Can you name the two kinds of innovation that make a firm dynamically efficient?

Innovation changes either how a product is made or the product itself.