Horizontal R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Evidence from France

Bruno Versaevel () and Désiré Vencatachellum ()
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Bruno Versaevel: EM Lyon, GATE CNRS

No 612, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: We use the French portion of the 2002 Community Innovation Survey to test how spillovers a®ect the likelihood that ¯rms cooperate in R&D. Unlike most existing empirical studies, our results clearly support well-established theoretical predictions of the industrial organization literature. We find that a firm which benefits from higher spillovers from her rivals is more likely to cooperate horizontally in R&D. Moreover, the impact of incoming spillovers on the likelihood of horizontal R&D cooperation is positive and statistically significant only when they are above a threshold. Both the value, and the precision of the estimates, increase with the information flow which firms report receiving from their competitors.

Keywords: cooperation; research and development; spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 L13 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2006-10
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