Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal … cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of firms? decisions to engage into the respective cooperation modes. In …

competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … for effective firm-specific appropriation facilities first. Spillovers that are sufficiently high such that the … internalisation effect from R&D-cooperation more than outweighs the competitive effect from research, only arise whenever firms are …

characteristics. Taking into account the pressure from existing or potential competition ambiguous effects of spillovers on R …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two … researchers. With patents as indicator the path-dependence hypothesis is rejected, and knowledge spillovers from neighboring …-dependence, and the relevance of interregional knowledge spillovers. Several extensions and refinements are discussed which may help …

an empirical part that analyses the relationship between R&D Co-operation and knowledge spillovers with regression …The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from … two-step estimation procedure, we find a positive effect of knowledge flows on the probability of R&D co-operation in most …

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition …. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the … R&D cooperation only considered process innovation, the model presented here also takes product innovation into account …