The objective of this paper is to analyse the effects of international R&D cooperation on firms’ economic performance. Our approach, based on a complete data set with information about Spanish participants in research joint ventures supported by the EU Framework Programme during the period...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the effects of international R&D cooperation on firms' economic performance. Our empirical analysis, based on Spanish firms' participation in the Framework Programme (FP) between 1995 and 2005, has confirmed that: (1) cooperation within the FP has a...

The objective of the present study is to analyse the effect of technological cooperation on SMEs performance consideringtwo dimensions: technological and economic results. For that purpose, we use a data set containing information about participants in research joint ventures supported by the...