Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to … distinguish different aspects of external information flows. We construct firm-specific measures of incoming spillovers and … appropriability from survey data on Belgian manufacturing firms. Incoming spillovers measure the importance of publicly available …

knowledge flows and these incoming spillovers serve to increase the efficiency of own applied research. The firm can at the same …

there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business … stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general framework showing that technology and product market spillovers have … product market spillovers operate, but that net social returns are several times larger than private returns. The spillover …

patent. Provided that spillovers exist in the case of unilateral revelation of know-how, it can be shown that non-cooperation … equilibrium is unique for high spillovers. Cooperation can occur for low spillovers. For certain parameters there exists an … technological know-how is private information. Firms first decide on cooperation and information revelation and then compete for a …