Organisation and location of academic sourcing at the firm level

Stephane Lhuillery

CEMI Working Papers from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Collège du Management de la Technologie, Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute, Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation

Abstract: Thanks to the second French Community Innovation Survey, a measurement of the importance of public research organisations as a useful source of innovation for manufacturing firms is available. We thus provide an exploratory econometric model where the internal R&D organisation and location of business units at the city level are both considered as explaining factors for the absorptive capacity dedicated to academic knowledge. Size, R&D intensity and organisation are found to be significant determinants of academic sourcing. The influence of local public research organisations on innovation is however found rather small and not restricted to urban areas.

Keywords: R&D; geographic spillovers; universities; absorption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 L21 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2005-05
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