Different aspects of external information flows have typically been lumped together under the name "spillovers". We … incoming spillovers and appropriability from survey data on Belgian manufacturing firms. Incoming spillovers measure the … distinction between incoming spillovers and appropriability is revealed when contrasting their effects on different types of …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal … cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of firms? decisions to engage into the respective cooperation modes. In …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal … cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of firms? decisions to engage into the respective cooperation modes. In …

This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The … sharing and coordination aspects of incoming spillovers are crucial in understanding cooperation, while on the other hand … results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and …

We use the French portion of the 2002 Community Innovation Survey to test how spillovers a®ect the likelihood that ¯rms … of the industrial organization literature. We find that a firm which benefits from higher spillovers from her rivals is … more likely to cooperate horizontally in R&D. Moreover, the impact of incoming spillovers on the likelihood of horizontal R …

strategy view, our paper also shows that imitators may not always benefit from interfirm knowledge spillovers. Specifically …

We test the theoretical prediction that inter-firm spillovers must necessarily be large for the profit differential … between cooperation and non-cooperation in R and D to be monotone increasing with them. By using the French data from the 2002 … Community Innovation Survey, we find that spillovers have a significant positive impact on the likelihood that competitors …