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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771954
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R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772409
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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704868
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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation
Darai, Donja; Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2009 - Revised version
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments for two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of firms from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387554
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Raising EU productivity through innovation
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Warzynski, Frederic - 2022
improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373114
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Foreign direct investment and R&D offshoring
Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006
We analyze a two-country model of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Two firms, each of which is originally situated in only one of the two countries, first decide whether to build a plant in the foreign country. Then, they decide whether to relocate R&D activities. Finally, they engage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003354423
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The relation between competition and innovation : why is it such a mess?
Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Revised version
Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892456
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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation
Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2008
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms’ incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892458
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Importance of international linkages for local know-how flows. Some econometric evidence from Belgium
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Cassiman, Bruno - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772204