External information sources, Innovation strategy, Formal cooperation, Multivariate Probit, O31, O33, O38,

A Pyka

AJ Salter

B Cassiman

B Noteboom

B Tether

Bart Verspagen

C Freeman

E Hippel von

F Galia

F Malerba

G Cainelli

H Chesbrough

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas

J Hagedoorn

K Laursen

K Pavitt

L Cappellari

M Beise

M Miozzo

O Marsili

R Belderbos

R Fontana

R Whitley

RC Levin

Roberto Fontana

RR Nelson

S Monjon

T Reinchstein

Tommy H. Clausen

W Becker

W Bönte

W Riggs

WM Cohen

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

Isabel Freitas

Tommy Clausen

Research Papers in Economics

Bodas Freitas, I.M.

Clausen, T.

Fontana, R.

Verspagen, B.

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Formal and informal external linkages and firms' innovative strategies : a cross-country comparison

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International audienceFirms 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

Bodas Freitas, Isabel Maria

Clausen, Tommy

Fontana, Roberto

Verspagen, Bart

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

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

Clausen, T.H.

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. © 2010 The Author(s)

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

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