Barge-Gil, Andrés; Conti, Annamaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present a theory that examines the optimal match between firm R&D units and external partners for projects that … project work with R\&D units that also have low learning costs for the same project. Empirically, we use a dataset of Spanish … R\&D firms and relate their share of R&D outsourcing to universities to the composition of their R&D units, described by …