r&d

The paper traces the innovation pathways of new creations from research and development (R&D) activity through to intellectual property applications using enterprise panel data from 1989 to 2002. Results indicate that R&D activity is a highly path dependent process that relies heavily on firm specific effects.

The paper argues that while it is optimal to concentrate growth-enhancing activities in downturns, dynamic spillovers inherent to the research and development (R&D) process lead private agents to concentrate too much of their R&D
activity in booms, precisely when its social cost is highest.

The paper shows that public research subsidies do not have a significant effect on private research and development expenditures of non-public Danish firms that perform R&D and have more than ten employees.

The authors present evidence for the semiconductor industry that research joint ventures (RJVs) indeed represent viable alternatives to mergers. They present evidence that joint ventures, and in particular, RJVs, may achieve comparable efficiencies possibly without the anti-competitive (market power) effects of mergers.

The authors construct a simple model with horizontally differentiated consumer goods, where each firm may invest in quality-improving research and development (R&D) to address issues of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D policy.

According to the authors, empirical evidence strongly suggests that research and development (R&D) increases a firms absorptive capacity as well as contributing directly to profitability. The authors specify a general model of the absorptive capacity process and show that costly absorption both raises the effectiveness of own R&D and lowers the effective spillover coefficient.

The paper provides an overview of the survey-based literature on industrial research and development (R&D) laboratories, beginning with the work of Edwin Mansfield. Topics covered include R&D projects, new products, and new processes; the appropriability of intellectual property; the limits of the firm in R&D; and spillovers of knowledge from other firms and universities into the laboratories.

The study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into an external research and development (R&D) relationship is related to an antecedent decision to carry out R&D. Based on a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, the results confirm the need to consider explicitly the selectivity issue in the empirical analysis of external R&D.

The paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on research and development (R&D) expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment.

The paper models the formation of R&D networks in an oligopolistic industry. In particular, it focuses on the co-evolutionary process involving firms technological capabilities, market structure and the network of interfirm technological agreements.