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  1. Gains and pains from contract research
    a transaction and firm-level perspective
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim

    Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choice between internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been a major challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative... more

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choice between internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been a major challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes. While research on R&D cooperation or strategic alliances is abundant, little is known about the outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper investigates the driving forces of external technology sourcing through contract research based on arguments from transaction cost theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the choice for engaging in contract research activities. Moreover, we show that internal and external R&D sourcing are complements: the marginal contribution of internal (external) R&D is the larger the more firms spend on external (internal) R&D.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: Discussion paper / ZEW ; 08-002
    Subjects: Innovation; Industrieforschung; Outsourcing; Forschungskooperation; Transaktionskosten; Ressourcenorientierter Ansatz; Deutschland; Auftragsforschung
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 36 S., Text, graph. Darst.
  2. Gains and pains from contract research
    a transaction and firm-level perspective
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen

    Location:
    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    W 1722 (2008.02)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Discussion paper / CEBR ; 2008,02
    Subjects: Innovation; Industrieforschung; Outsourcing; Forschungskooperation; Transaktionskosten; Ressourcenorientierter Ansatz; Deutschland; Auftragsforschung
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 35 S., Text, graph. Darst.
  3. Gains and pains from contract research
    a transaction and firm-level perspective
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Centre for Industrial Economics, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen

    Location:
    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    W 1136 (2008.01)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: CIE discussion papers ; 2008.1
    Subjects: Innovation; Industrieforschung; Outsourcing; Forschungskooperation; Transaktionskosten; Ressourcenorientierter Ansatz; Deutschland; Auftragsforschung
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 35 S. = 202 KB, Text