firms. Specifically, we explore the impact of vertical R&D cooperation on firms’ process innovation, outputs, market prices … integrated industry. Contribution & Value Added: Firms’ process innovation benefits from the vertical integration of the industry …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or … differential regional effects. The latter can be used to identify and evaluate the strength of regional innovation systems …. Applying this method to German patent data we find evidence that regional differences in the degree of cooperative innovation …