cooperation between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal … cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of firms' decisions to engage into the respective espective cooperation … modes. In line with previous empirical work, we do not find much empirical evidence for the relevance of incoming spillovers …

This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The … sharing and coordination aspects of incoming spillovers are crucial in understanding cooperation, while on the other hand … results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and …

We test the theoretical prediction that inter-firm spillovers must necessarily be large for the profit differential … between cooperation and non-cooperation in R and D to be monotone increasing with them. By using the French data from the 2002 … Community Innovation Survey, we find that spillovers have a significant positive impact on the likelihood that competitors …

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game …

degree of knowledge spillovers and of market competition both affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects … interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to soften incentives when product market competition is high, and to … incentives is U-shaped, with the exact shape depending on the degree of knowledge spillovers. We also show that the performance …

This paper analyzes the role of absorptive capacity in R&D spillovers through strategic R&D investments in a game …

This paper proposes a model where firms invest in secrecy to limit technological spillovers accruing to their … competitors, in addition to investing in cost-reducing R&D. The main result of the paper is that increases in spillovers increase … secrecy, or a reduction in the cost of R&D, all lead to an increase in secrecy. As for the effect of spillovers on effective …