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 …

strategy view, our paper also shows that imitators may not always benefit from interfirm knowledge spillovers. Specifically …

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

We test the theoretical prediction that inter-firm spillovers must necessarily be large for the profit differential … between cooperation and non-cooperation in R and D to be monotone increasing with them. By using the French data from the 2002 … Community Innovation Survey, we find that spillovers have a significant positive impact on the likelihood that competitors …

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game …

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game …

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 …