Knowledge flows and R&D Co-operation

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship between R&D Co-operation and knowledge spillovers with regression analysis. The empirical part uses data from the Mannheim Innovationpanel on innovation activities of German firms.