Formal and informal external linkages and firms' innovative strategies. A cross-country comparison

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas; Tommy Clausen; Roberto Fontana; Bart Verspagen

doi:10.1007/s00191-010-0188-y

Formal and informal external linkages and firms' innovative strategies. A cross-country comparison

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas ^{1, 2} Tommy Clausen ^{3, 4} Roberto Fontana ^{5, 6} Bart Verspagen ^{7, 8}

1 Polito - Politecnico di Torino [Torino]

2 MTS - Management Technologique et Strategique

3 UiO - University of Oslo

4 Nordland Research Institute

5 University of Pavia

6 Dipartimento di Management e Tecnologia

7 UNU-MERIT - UNU-MERIT

8 Maastricht University [Maastricht]

Abstract : Firms increasingly rely upon external actors for their innovation process. Interaction with these actors may occur formally (i.e. through a collaboration agreement) or informally (i.e. external actors acts as sources of information). We analyze the reasons why firms consider it to be important to develop formal and informal external linkages in the innovation process by looking at the role played by firms' innovative strategies and by taking into account the possibility that a complementarity or substitutive relationship might exist between formal and informal linkages. Data are from the Third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3), where we have access to firm level micro-data from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and the UK.

Keywords : Multivariate Probit Formal cooperation External information sources Innovation strategy

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Article dans une revue

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2008, 21 (1), pp. 91-119. 〈10.1007/s00191-010-0188-y〉

Domaine :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société / Gestion et management

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