Firm-Level Evidence on the Cooperative Innovation Strategies in Russian Manufacturing

Abstract

This paper focuses on revealing the heterogeneous impact of firms' specificities and the environment on the sophistication of the cooperative innovation strategies. We use the firm-level data on innovation strategies of over 800 innovation-active manufacturing enterprises in Russia to model the networking strategy as a simultaneous choice of the range of cooperative linkages (within and beyond the value chain and knowledge production sectors) with a special respect to geography of partners. The determinants comprise the internal factors (as absorptive capacity) and the external conditions (e.g. technological opportunities, appropriability and competition regimes). Revealed effects prove the initial heterogeneity hypothesis thus challenging the widespread simplified perception of 'openness' of the innovation strategy as a one-dimensional characteristic.

An alternative approach towards the knowledge production function on a regional level - applications for the USA and Russia

“…Literature Review While this is not the first study to estimate a knowledge production function, among studies which have tested the KPF for specific regions or sectors, there are the only three studies with a focus on the Russian Federation; Roud (2007), Savin and Winker (2012) and Perret (2013) for the USA Varga (2000), Audretsch and Stephan (1999a),Ó hUallacháin and Leslie (2007) and Branstetter (2001) (US and Japan) can seen as an excerpt of studies with the respective focus.…”