Prior research shows that technology spillovers across firms increase innovation, productivity, and value. We study how … firms finance their own growth stimulated by technology spillovers from their technological peer firms. We find that greater … technology spillovers lead to higher leverage. This is the result of technology spillovers increasing asset redeployability, as …

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 …

We use the French portion of the 2002 Community Innovation Survey to test how spillovers a®ect the likelihood that ¯rms … of the industrial organization literature. We find that a firm which benefits from higher spillovers from her rivals is … more likely to cooperate horizontally in R&D. Moreover, the impact of incoming spillovers on the likelihood of horizontal R …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from … two-step estimation procedure, we find a positive effect of knowledge flows on the probability of R&D co-operation in most …

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 …