This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account the possibility of persistence in firms’ behaviour. We study this relationship for a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1990 and 2005, estimating a model with four...

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...