differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …

The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …-regional than intra-regional cooperation. The firms' propensity to extend cooperation across the region is assumed to increase with … investigate the effect of an increasing amount of support. All the hypotheses are not rejected. Firms' cooperation is policy …

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 …

from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …

The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions … for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm … of the social norm and two parameters measuring the cost of cooperation into relation with each other. …