Based on a largely unbiased sample of 1800 German manufacturing enterprises we analyze the propensity to maintain different forms of R&D cooperation with customers, suppliers, competitors and public research institutions. We find a relatively stable set of characteristics of those enterprises...

This paper investigates R&D cooperation of manufacturing establishments in three German regions. We find that cooperation is a widespread phenomenon and examine the characteristics of those establishments that maintain certain kinds of cooperative relationships.

Der allgemeine Trend zur Auslagerung von Aktivitätsbereichen aus Unternehmen und die damit einhergehende Konzentration auf Kernkompetenzen führt zu einer Intensivierung der zwischenbetrieblichen Arbeitsteilung, auch im Innovationsprozeß. Hierbei kommt den unternehmensnahen Dienstleistungen...