We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

This paper examines empirically the theoretical relationship between external knowledge and innovation success. Special …-specific absorptive capacities. The results of the micro-econometric analysis based on German firm data on innovation suggest that firms … can effectively use external R&D within their own innovation process, as long as they have access to the relevant …

We introduce knowledge spillovers in a model of innovation competition a la Federico et al. (2017) and Denicolo and … Polo (2018), which otherwise features horizontal mergers that harm innovation due to the business stealing effect. With … merger can improve the incentives for innovation. Horizontal mergers raise (reduce) innovation if the spillover effect is …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …

process innovation affect channel structure and effort investment incentives? 2) What are the interactions between … manufacturers invest more in process innovation than perfectly coordinated manufacturers do when spillovers are large. Moreover, in … industries where large spillovers exist, horizontal cooperation among manufacturers induces higher levels of process innovation …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …