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Suppliers play a major role in innovation processes. We analyze ownership allocations and the choice of R&D technology in vertical R&D cooperations. Given incomplete contracts on the R&D outcome, there is a tradeoff between R&D specifically designed towards a manufacturer (increasing investment...
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Suppliers play a major role in downstream firms' innovation processes. We analyze ownership allocations and the choice of technology in vertical research and development (R&D) cooperations. Given that R&D outcomes are not contractible, there is a trade-off between R&D specifically designed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210523
The paper at hand contributes to the field of proximity studies with a focus on social proximity. The paper gives an in-depth discussion of a theoretical and empirical definition of social proximity. Based on this, an argumentation follows why social proximity is of particular importance when...
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This paper explores the drivers of inter-firm R&D collaborations in a particular type of innovation network, the technological districts created in Italy under a specific public policy to promote innovation. The empirical analysis used an original database containing information on research...
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …
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incentives targeted towards creation of stable networks of potential users of scientists' research. Secondly, authorities should …
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' innovation networks largely depends on their ability to develop and reinforce their own knowledge-capital. …
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When customers face financing frictions, they can retain suppliers through nonmonetary incentives, such as sharing their technology, thereby fostering supplier innovation. Using customer-supplier pairs in the U.S., we find that suppliers of customers who violate covenants become more innovative,...
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Suppliers play a major role in innovation processes. We analyze ownership allocations and the choice of R&D technology in vertical R&D cooperations. Given incomplete contracts on the R&D outcome, there is a tradeoff between R&D specifically designed towards a manufacturer (increasing investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303700