The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the … supports earlier literature on the importance of proximity in innovation. …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …