How does the global network of research collaboration affect the quality of innovation?

Takashi Iino (), Hiroyasu Inoue, Yukiko Saito and Yasuyuki Todo
Additional contact information
Takashi Iino: Niigata University
Hiroyasu Inoue: University of Hyogo

The Japanese Economic Review, 2021, vol. 72, issue 1, No 2, 5-48

Abstract: Abstract This study examines how research collaboration of firms affects the quality of their innovation outcomes using comprehensive patent data for firms in the world from 1991 to 2010. Identifying research collaboration by co-patenting relationships, we find that research collaboration with other firms, particularly with foreign firms, leads to substantial improvement in innovation quality. We also observe a positive effect of the brokerage in the global network, especially for firms with international collaboration links. These results are applicable to the effect on the quality of innovation achieved individually without any collaboration. Therefore, our findings emphasize the importance of links with a variety of partners, particularly with foreign partners to improve innovation performance. Finally, we find that the collaboration effect is larger in the 2000s than in the 1990s and varies depending on firm size and across countries.

Keywords: Research collaboration; Network; Innovation; Co-patenting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F23 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s42973-020-00042-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
Working Paper: How Does the Global Network of Research Collaboration Affect the Quality of Innovation? (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jecrev:v:72:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s42973-020-00042-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.springer.com/journal/42973

DOI: 10.1007/s42973-020-00042-y

Access Statistics for this article

The Japanese Economic Review is currently edited by Michihiro Kandori

More articles in The Japanese Economic Review from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().