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Does It Pay to Have Your Own R&D Department? In-house and External R&D in the Context of Innovations

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  • Jacek Lewkowicz
  • Anna Lewczuk

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What type of R&D is essential for creating innovations? Is in-house R&D more efficient than purchasing external innovations? The question of various strategies for private firms to succeed in developing innovations is key for ongoing national and international programmes for raising innovativeness of economies. The goal of the paper is to investigate the outcomes of different types of R&D in the context of innovations and to analyse their significance in European countries empirically. In this paper, we aim to provide a quantitative analysis of the problem on the data collected from the Common Innovation Survey. We cover innovations in products, services, production methods, distribution systems and supporting activities. The results suggest that both in-house and external R&D matter for firms' innovativeness, but the effect is stronger for the former for most of the types of innovations considered.

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  • Jacek Lewkowicz & Anna Lewczuk, 2021. "Does It Pay to Have Your Own R&D Department? In-house and External R&D in the Context of Innovations," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2021(3), pages 272-289.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpep:v:2021:y:2021:i:3:id:771:p:272-289
    DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.771
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    Keywords

    Innovations; internal R& D; external R&;
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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