R&D Spillovers and Recipient Firm Size

Zoltan Acs, David Audretsch () and Maryann P Feldman

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994, vol. 76, issue 2, 336-40

Abstract: The findings in this paper provide some insight into how small firms are able to innovate. Using a production function approach to relate knowledge generating inputs to innovative output, the empirical results suggest that small firms are the recipients of R&D spillovers from knowledge generated in the R&D centers of their larger counterparts and in universities. Such R&D spillovers are apparently more decisive in promoting the innovative activity of small firms than of large corporations. Copyright 1994 by MIT Press.

Date: 1994
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