The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...

While prior studies have investigated the effect of collaborative R&D with different partner types (suppliers, customers, competitors and research institutions and universities) on firms’ innovative performance, the implications of dynamic patterns in these collaborations have not received...