The Impact of Cooperation on R&D, Innovation andProductivity: an Analysis of Spanish Manufacturing and Services Firms

Verónica Fernández Gual () and Agustí Segarra Blasco ()
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Verónica Fernández Gual: CREIP, XREAP, Industry and Territory Research Group, Reus, Spain
Agustí Segarra Blasco: CREIP, XREAP, Industry and Territory Research Group, Reus, Spain

No XREAP2013-08, Working Papers from Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)

Abstract: This paper investigates relationships between cooperation, R&D, innovation and productivity in Spanish firms. It uses a large sample of firm-level micro-data and applies an extended structural model that aims to explain the effects of cooperation on R&D investment, of R&D investment on output innovation, and of innovation on firms’ productivity levels. It also analyses the determinants of R&D cooperation. Firms’ technology level is taken into account in order to analyse the differences between high-tech and low-tech firms, both in the industrial and service sectors. The database used was the Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) for the period 2004-2010. Empirical results show that firms which cooperate in innovative activities are more likely to invest in R&D in subsequent years. As expected, R&D investment has a positive impact on the probability of generating an innovation, in terms of both product and process, for manufacturing firms. Finally, innovation output has a positive impact on firms’ productivity, being greater in process innovations.

Keywords: innovation sources; productivity; R&D Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2013-11, Revised 2013-11
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