IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijimxx/v18y2014i04ns1363919614500261.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Determinants Of R&D Collaboration: An Empirical Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • KAISA HENTTONEN

    (School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P. O. Box 20, FI-53851, Lappeenranta, Finland)

  • PIA HURMELINNA-LAUKKANEN

    (University of Oulu, Oulu Business School, P. O. Box 4600, FI-90014, Finland)

Abstract

The focus of the study is on the determinants of R&D collaboration and their effects on its breadth and depth. Using a sample from an original survey of 193 Finnish firms, we examine the effects of R&D intensity, incoming spillovers, size, specific motives and selected appropriability mechanisms on R&D collaboration with various actors. The findings indicate that R&D intensity and incoming spillovers have a positive impact on the breadth of collaboration, and that firm size is relevant. Size is also quite decisive in terms of depth in that it relates to the existence of collaboration with five out of six different partner types. Finally, the determinants differ slightly depending on the external organizations with which the firm collaborates. The study complements previous research on the determinants of R&D collaboration in focusing on a variety of factors and examining them in terms of both breadth and depth.

Suggested Citation

  • Kaisa Henttonen & Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, 2014. "Determinants Of R&D Collaboration: An Empirical Analysis," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(04), pages 1-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:18:y:2014:i:04:n:s1363919614500261
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919614500261
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1363919614500261
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S1363919614500261?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dragana Radicic & Jonathan Pinto, 2019. "Collaboration with External Organizations and Technological Innovations: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-31, April.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:18:y:2014:i:04:n:s1363919614500261. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.