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Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity

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  • Luca Berchicci
  • Jeroen P. J. de Jong
  • Mark Freel

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Collaboration with geographically distant partners may enhance a firm’s innovative performance. In practice, however, this may be complicated as personal contacts are more limited so that effective search and transfer of remote partners’ tacit knowledge is hampered. We tested the potential moderating role of R&D intensity which, by indicating technology-oriented absorptive capacity, may mitigate the problems associated with remote collaboration. Drawing on survey data of 248 high-tech small firms, we find that remote collaboration is positively related with innovation performance, but at low R&D intensity, the relationship vanishes.

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  • Luca Berchicci & Jeroen P. J. de Jong & Mark Freel, 2016. "Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 25(3), pages 429-446.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:25:y:2016:i:3:p:429-446.
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