Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal … cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of firms? decisions to engage into the respective cooperation modes. In …

This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The … sharing and coordination aspects of incoming spillovers are crucial in understanding cooperation, while on the other hand … results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and …

protection. Firm size, employee training, and knowledge spillovers also have an impact on the inventive process …

competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … for effective firm-specific appropriation facilities first. Spillovers that are sufficiently high such that the … internalisation effect from R&D-cooperation more than outweighs the competitive effect from research, only arise whenever firms are …

emphasis is posed on the effects that arise from various types of spillovers and how these effects are influenced by firm …

characteristics. Taking into account the pressure from existing or potential competition ambiguous effects of spillovers on R …

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

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two … researchers. With patents as indicator the path-dependence hypothesis is rejected, and knowledge spillovers from neighboring …-dependence, and the relevance of interregional knowledge spillovers. Several extensions and refinements are discussed which may help …