@techreport{Kaiser2000Research,
abstract = {This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research
collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The
amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on
their own research efforts, e.g., firms? absorptive capacity is treated as an endogenous
variable. It is shown that cooperating firms invest more in R&D than
non?cooperating firms if spillovers are sufficiently large. Further, market demand and R&D productivity have a positive effect on R&D efforts both under research joint venture and under research competition. Firms? propensity to collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity.
The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation
survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice
and innovation expenditures shows that R&D cooperation has a weakly significant
positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly
support the theoretical model.},
address = {Mannheim},
author = {Ulrich Kaiser},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O31; C35; 330; research cooperation; research expenditures; knowledge spillovers; simultaneous equation model; services},
language = {eng},
number = {00-25},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Europ\"{a}ische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)},
title = {Research Cooperation and Research Expenditures with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Microeconometric Evidence for the German Service Sector},
type = {ZEW Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24578},
year = {2000}
}
