Monjon, Stéphanie; Waelbroeck, Patrick - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
We assess the importance of information flows from universities to innovative firms and determine the relative … contribution of formal collaboration and pure knowledge spillovers in this process. We find that spillovers provide the most … benefit to firms that imitate existing technologies or those that are involved in incremental innovation. On the other hand …