Productivity and R&D sources: evidence for Catalan firms

Agust� Segarra and Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa ()

Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2011, vol. 20, issue 8, 727-748

Abstract: This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify how two main sources of innovation -- internal R&D and external R&D acquisition -- affect productivity in the manufacturing and service industries. The sample comprises 1612 innovative firms from the fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4) during the period 2002--2004. We compare empirical results when applying the usual OLS and quantile regression techniques controlling with a non-parametric sample selection. Our results indicate the different patterns that are attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up from lower to higher conditional quantiles. First, the marginal effect of internal R&D on productivity decreased as we moved up to higher productivity levels. Second, the marginal effect of external R&D acquisition increased as we moved up to higher productivity levels. Finally, empirical results show significant complementarities between internal and external R&D, which are higher for knowledge-intensive service sectors.

Date: 2011
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