Doing R&D And/Or Importing Technologies: The Critical Importance of Firm Size in Taiwan's Manufacturing Industries

Chia-Lin Chang () and Stéphane Robin ()
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Stéphane Robin: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

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Abstract: We analyze the relationship between firm size and innovation inputs in Taiwan. Two inputs are considered: R&D and technology imports. Building on an existing theoretical framework, we test this relationship by estimating bivariate Tobit models in twenty 2-digit industries, using a panel of 27,754 firms observed from 1992 to 1995. We find that, in all industries, R&D intensity and/or technology imports intensity depend strongly on firm size, following an "inverted-U" pattern. Moreover, we find that most industries are only "mildly Schumpeterian". Finally, our results provide some empirical evidence for complementarity between R&D and technology imports in the innovation process

Keywords: Firm size; Inter-industry relations; R&D; Technology imports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Review of Industrial Organization, 2008, 29 (3), pp.253-278. ⟨10.1007/s11151-006-911⟩

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Journal Article: Doing R&D and/or Importing Technologies: The Critical Importance of Firm Size in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Industries (2006)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-006-911

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