We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral agreements and nonexclusive relationships. Our analysis highlights the relationship between market competition, firms' incentives to invest in R&D, and the architecture of...

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...

This paper investigates empirically different ways to organize R&D within Swiss firms. Based on a longitudinal data set comprising three cross-sections (1999, 2002, and 2005) of the Swiss innovation survey, four different types of R&D strategies were identified: firms combine in-house R&D with...

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...

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 pairs of countries as explained by the geographical,...

This paper studies the joint effects of inter-firm collaboration and electronic business on firm profitability primarily in Finnish manufacturing. It is found that deeper forms of inter-firm collaboration boost financial performance but that high e-business intensity might even strain...

This study, commissioned by the National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes), evaluates the current innovation system and business environment in Northwest Russia and identifies opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation in R&D. The innovation system in Northwest Russia shares common...

After the success related to the GSM standard, the Finnish telecom sector has come to the crossroads and now phases various possible paths to follow and challenges to master. At present there is technological and market competition both within and between different next generation telecom...

Inter-firm collaboration in R&D is not a new phenomenon. What is new, however, is the rapid increase in such collaboration since the 1980s in parallel with increasing competition. Terms like “strategic R&D alliances” or “alliance capitalism” have been coined to conceptualise these...

This empirical study explores firms’ standard-setting strategies in wireless telecommunications. A quantitative case study of one standards development organization, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), provides measures for firms’ ability to influence technical standardization...