The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

design of innovation policies aimed at R&D collaboration and technology diffusion. …

Competition in R&D When Innovation and Absorption Are Costly This paper analyses cost-reducing R&D investments by firms that … imitation (absorption) but also, for the most part, more innovation investments. Only the cooperative behavior, however, ensures … that R&D investments are allocated efficiently to innovation and to imitation (absorption) in the sense that any given …