in knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal r&d and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-i...

Which firms find it optimal to integrate their input suppliers into the firm boundaries of control (vertical integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides novel evidence on these questions based on a Spanish firm-level data set. We find that firms selecting into strategies of vertical integration and of offshor...

The Effects of Disclosure Regulation on Innovative Firms: Common Values*

This article examines the way in which the Spanish hotel industry has responded to government aid and to the use of new technological strategies in order to improve its ability to innovate. Using the Survey on Technological Innovation (Encuesta sobre innovación tecnológica, 2000), carried out by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics under the guidelines of Eurostat and the Oslo Manual, h...

A prime motive for innovative firms to seek collaboration is gain access knowledge resources. Firms that already benefit from spillovers without establishing formal collaborative agreements, may abstain embarking on such agreements as they are costly. The propensity (start or continue to) collaborate with other business partners (customers, suppliers, competitors) will be associated whether res...

This paper investigates the comparability of the 1999 Canadian Survey of Innovation with the European Community Innovation Surveys for 1997/1998 (CIS2). Four European countries are compared to Canada: France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Differences in terms of design and implementation of the survey and formulation of the questionnaire are pointed out. Proposals are made to harmonize the two d...

This paper explores the effects of commercial subsidies to R&D by means of a model of firms’ decisions about performing R&D when some government support can be expected. The model is estimated with an unbalanced panel sample of more than 2,000 performing and non-performing Spanish manufacturing firms. For the non-performing firms, we compute the trigger subsidies required to induce R&D spending...