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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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This paper explores how and why collaboration with different types of partners and the position within a research … dispersed knowledge base, where one would expect positive benefits from collaboration and the position within a network for … drug approvals. We apply social network analysis and count data regressions. We observe that collaboration with a diverse …
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089915
In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or spatial and on the technological or sectoral dimension. We suggest a method to disentangle these two factors and to extract differential regional effects. The latter can be used to...
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A key issue of dfferent streams of economic literature is to determine the impact of certain dimensions of proximity on the cooperative behavior of actors and, thus, on interactive learning processes. This paper is a quantitative study on the impact of technological and geographical proximity on...
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This paper investigates the possible presence of three problems in regional innovation systems (RIS): intermediation, reciprocity and compatibility. Based on firm data gathered for three different regions, Northern Hesse, Jena and Sophia Antipolis, we can show that a low propensity to cooperate...
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The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of the system's borders. This paper intro- duces a methodology how to differentiate between regional and technological effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes...
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The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...
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In this paper we focus on proximity as one of the main determinants of international collaboration in pharmaceutical … research. We use various count data specifications of the gravity model to estimate the intensity of collaboration between …. Our results suggest that geographical distance has a significant negative relation to the collaboration intensity between …
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, toleran-ce, technology, and territory both as a stand-alone metropolitan area and in comparison to similar industrial … has the opportunity to capitalize on the creative economy because of its openness to diversity, established technology …
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