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Internal Capabilities, R&D Cooperation with Universities and Firms Innovativeness Level: Evidence from Spain

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  • Nadia Ayari

    (Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra)

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of internal R&D factors and external R&D cooperation with universities on the innovativeness level of firms using Spanish data collected from the Surveys of Technological Innovation of the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE). The results show that, while firms, specifically those introducing more advanced innovations, are relying to a higher extent on cooperation with universities, both R&D strategies are shown to be important determinants of firms innovativeness level. Moreover, firms endowed with higher absorptive capacity have greater propensities to develop new knowledge. I also find that when associated to R&D cooperation, internal R&D capacity is likely to reduce the influence of the cooperation strategy on the innovativeness level of the firm.

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  • Nadia Ayari, 2010. "Internal Capabilities, R&D Cooperation with Universities and Firms Innovativeness Level: Evidence from Spain," Faculty Working Papers 07/10, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra.
    • Handle: RePEc:una:unccee:wp0710
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    Keywords

    Innovativeness level; Cooperation with universities; internal R&D;
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    JEL classification:

    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
    • 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

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