Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014
costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in … abroad range of manufacturing and service sectors and of which 86% are SMEs, we indeed find that increasing the share of …