Empirical Evidence on the Success of R&D Cooperation—Happy Together?

By Birgit Aschhoff, Tobias Schmidt. 2008

252 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In this paper we analyse the effect of past R&D cooperation on current firms’ innovation performance. Success measures are: sales of innovative products, distinguishing between products new to the firm and new to the market, and cost reductions due to innovative processes. Particular attention is paid to the impact of different cooperation partners. The analysis rests on firm-level data of the annual German innovation survey. We find that R&D cooperation with competitors leads to greater cost reductions that are attributable to innovative processes. R&D cooperation with research institutes has a positive influence on a firm’s economic success with market novelties.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Inter-temporal patterns of R&D collaboration and innovative performance (2014, unknown): “…important to differentiate between types of collaboration partners: vertical partners in the value chain such as suppliers and customers; competitors, and institutional partners (e.g. Aschhoff and Schmidt 2008; Belderbos et al. 2006; Faria et al. 2010; Franco and Gussoni 2013; Huang and Yu 2011).”
• Selective search, sectoral patterns, and the impact on product innovation performance (2012, unknown): “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).”
• A Note on the Practice of Lagging Variables to Avoid Simultaneity (2013, unknown): “Other examples are: " Innovation intensity is included as a lagged variable in order to mitigate simultaneity problems " (Aschhoff and Schmidt, 2008, p. 48); " The variables The purpose of this note is to draw attention to the fact that replacing a contemporaneous explanatory variable with its…”
• What drives innovation output from subsidized R&D cooperation?—Project-level evidence from Germany (2012, unknown): “Basically, cooperation partners may be classified as customers, suppliers, competitors, specific service providers, universities, private or public research institutes, or government institutions which are located in the same region or in other regions (e.g., Arranz and de Arroyabe, 2008; Aschhoff a”
• Returns to alliance portfolio diversity : The relative effects of partner diversity on firm’s innovative performance and productivity (2014, unknown): “…partner types can serve different purposes such as providing the focal firm with different resources, knowledge, and expertise useful for improving innovative performance andproductivity (e.g., Aschhoff & Schmidt, 2008; Belderbos, Carree, Diederen, Lokshin, & Veugelers, 2004; Teece, 1980).”
• The Effect Of Inbound, Outbound And Coupled Innovation On Performance (2012, unknown): “, 2012) and financial performance (Belderbos et al., 2006; Aschhoff and Schmidt, 2008; Lin and Wu, 2010).”