Assessing spillovers from universities to firms: evidence from French firm-level data

By S. Monjon, Patrick Waelbroeck. 2003

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We assess the importance of information flows from universities to innovative firms and determine the relative contribution of formal collaboration and pure knowledge spillovers in this process. We find that spillovers provide the most benefit to firms that imitate existing technologies or those that are involved in incremental innovation. On the other hand, highly innovative firms appear to derive most benefit from collaborative research with foreign universities. Indeed, highly innovative firms are at the frontier of the academic knowledge in their industry. Therefore, they only marginally benefit from aggregate (or industry-wide) spillovers. They require new forms of academic knowledge that they acquire through formal cooperation with foreign universities.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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University knowledge and firm innovation: evidence from European countries (2014, background): “For example, Monjon and Waelbroeck (2003) find that radical innovators, that is, those who come up with products new to the market, collaborate with universities, while incremental innovators benefit mostly from intra-industry knowledge spillovers.”
Cooperation-based innovators and peripheral cooperators: An empirical analysis of their characteristics and behavior (2010, background): “, 2004b) or degree of novelty of the most relevant innovative output (Monjon and Waelbroeck, 2003; Amara and Landry, 2005).”
Empirical Evidence on the Success of R&D Cooperation—Happy Together? (2008, neutral): “Monjon and Waelbroeck (2003) include a wide range of collaboration variables and distinguish between domestic and foreign co-operation as explanatory variables for the novelty of innovations.”
Cooperation with public research institutions and success in innovation: Evidence from France and Germany (2013, background): “Monjon and Walbroeck (2003) find that highly innovative firms benefit from official collaboration projects with universities, whereas imitating firms benefit from spillovers.”
Working with distant researchers—Distance and content in university–industry interaction (2010, neutral): “Monjon & Waelbroeck (2003) and Mariani & Giuri (2007) both find that interactions tend to be local when the research project has a low scientific content.”
Market demand, green product innovation, and firm performance: evidence from Vietnam motorcycle industry (2013, neutral): “In addition, Monjon and Waelbroeck (2003) found that customer collaboration has an insignificant impact on product innovation.”
Cooperative R&D and firm performance (2004, background): “…empirical work on the effects of cooperation on innovative sales and productivity, where single performance measures were used and no (variation in) lag structures could be examined because of the cross-section nature of the data (e.g. L̈oöf and Heshmati, 2002;Monjon and Waelbroeck, 2003).”
Inbound open innovation for enhanced performance: Enablers and opportunities (2013, background): “…disclosures, the popular press, trade journals, information exchanges at conferences, employee migration, or conversations around the watercooler (e.g., Lee, Johnson, & Grewal, 2008; Los & Verspagen, 2000), while others are acquired at full or partial market value (Monjon & Waelbroeck, 2003).”
Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis (2010, neutral): “Monjon and Waelbroeck (2003) find that incremental innovators benefit from intraindustry knowledge spillovers and close proximity to universities but that radical innovators (those who come up with products new to the market) collaborate with universities, even with foreign universities.”
Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies (2004, background): “This is in line with Narula’s (2002) finding that access to complementary technology has the highest importance among motives for R&D 2 See e.g. Monjon and Waelbroeck (2003) for a cross section analysis of the impact of different types of R&D cooperation on firm innovativeness.”