What type of enterprise forges close links with universities and government labs? Evidence from CIS 2

Abstract

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Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis

“…Belderbos, Lokshin, Carree (2004) confirm that collaborations with customers and suppliers focus on incremental innovations whereas collaborations with universities are instrumental in producing radical innovations. Mohnen and Hoareau (2003), however, report that radical innovators source knowledge from universities but do not cooperate with them directly.…”

How do different drivers of R&D investment in foreign locations affect domestic firm performance? An analysis based on Swiss panel micro data

“…One may object to this procedure that the differences among firms pursuing foreign R&D for different 7 See Belderbos et al (2004), Capron and Cincera (2004), and Schmidt (2007) for a similar approach regarding the analysis of motives for R&D cooperation. See also the discussion on this issue in Mohnen and Hoareau (2003) and Schmidt (2007). reasons-the specific topic of this study-could be dominated by the differences between firms with and those without foreign R&D activities. However, a comparison of the results in Table 5 (referring to the dichotomous variable R&D_FOR) and Table 6 (referring to the three types of motives for foreign R&D) show that this not the case.…”

Do Local Knowledge Spillovers Matter for Development? An Empirical Study of Uruguay’s Software Cluster

“…In the 3rd Community Innovation Survey the questions regarding the importance of various sources of information for innovation are formulated in a similar way (CIS 3, 2004). Furthermore, research based on the CIS data interprets the answers to these questions as reflecting the intensity of information sourcing from the various sources (Mohnen and Hoareau, 2003). Our four knowledge-through-interaction indicators will be interpreted in a similar manner.…”