This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to … of science links. -- Innovation ; cooperation ; patents ; forward citation ; science ; industrial innovation …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also … find that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on product innovation if its intensity increases above a …

terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance …R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and …

In this paper we empirically analyze the effects of collaboration in innovation with universities on the firm …'s innovative performance. Using data from the Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC for its acronym in Spanish) we have … additionalities, while subcontracting specific R&D activities to universities do not seem to affect the firm's innovative performance …