Empirical Evidence on the Success of R&D Co-Operation - Happy Together?

Selective search, sectoral patterns, and the impact on product innovation performance

“…We conduct significance tests on mean differences between firms with above average usage of certain types of knowledge search compared with the rest. Firms using sciencedriven knowledge search at an above average level exhibit a significantly higher share of sales 5 These variables have frequently been shown to cause heteroscedasticity in this setting (see e. g. Aschhoff and Schmidt, 2006;Czarnitzki and Toole, 2007).…”

The Impact of Cooperation on Firms’ Innovation Propensity in Emerging Economies

“…There are different numbers of researches which have emphasised the impact of external R&D cooperation on firm's innovation performance (e.g. Lööf and Heshmati, 2002;Miotti and Sachwald, 2003;Cincera et al, 2003;Belderbos et al, 2004;Lööf and Broström, 2008;Aschhoff and Schmidt, 2006). The benefits of co-operation have been extensively studied and summarized by Ahuja (2000): endure environ-J.…”

“…Miotti and Sachwald, 2003). Lööf and Broström (2008) find that collaboration with university positively influences innovative performance of Swedish manufacturing firms and Aschhoff and Schmidt (2006) also evidence positive impact of university collaboration on the probability of developing new product at German firms. In the case of Dutch firms, Belderbos et al (2004) find that R&D collaboration with universities increases the growth of sales attributable to market novelties.…”

International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

“…Cooperation activities with other firms or institutions are seen by firms as an opportunities to access complementary technological resources (as skill sharing), for faster development of innovations, to improve market access, to realise economies of scale and scope, and to share costs and spread risk (see, for example,. Hagedoorn, 1993;Glaister and Buckley, 1996;Narula and Hagedoorn, 1999;Cassiman and Veugelers, 2002;Sakakibara, 1997;Miotti andSachwald, 2003, Aschhoff andSchmidt, 2006). Cooperation activities are usually characterised by intensive knowledge exchange and mutual learning, basically by combining complementary assets and building synergies (Dachs et al, 2004;Becker and Dietz, 2004).…”