Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201240 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Working Papers No. 25
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We use data from over 1500 Finnish companies for the years 2006-2008 and 2008-2010 to explore complementarity of a firm’s R&D strategy with its external knowledge acquisition and innovation collaboration strategies. We define knowledge complementarity (tacit knowledge complementarity) of R&D capabilities to exist when increase in investments in R&D also increases marginal returns from broader external knowledge search (deeper innovation collaboration with external partners). Our estimation results provide support for knowledge complementarity of external R&D. Instead, our data provide no evidence on tacit knowledge complementary of external R&D generally. However, our empirical results concerning the separate types of external R&D suggest that a firm’s acquisition of new technology (i.e., advanced machinery, equipment or software) for innovation purposes appears to be tacit knowledge complementary.
Subjects: 
open innovation
external knowledge search
complementarity
JEL: 
D83
O3
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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