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 …

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

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 …

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

This paper presents a dynamic model of a competitive R&D and production duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers. Two … planner prefer the R&Dcooperative strategy over the competitive one regardless of the intensity of knowledge spillovers … venture, the firms do not necessary choose the highest degree of cooperation available. …

knowledge flows and these incoming spillovers serve to increase the efficiency of own applied research. The firm can at the same …

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 …

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 …