Horizontal R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Evidence from France

Désiré Vencatachellum (1) , Bruno Versaevel (2)

1 HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
2 GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique

We use the French portion of the 2002 Community Innovation Survey to test how spillovers a®ect the likelihood that ¯rms cooperate in R&D. Unlike most existing empirical studies, our results clearly support well-established theoretical predictions of the industrial organization literature. We find that a firm which benefits from higher spillovers from her rivals is more likely to cooperate horizontally in R&D. Moreover, the impact of incoming spillovers on the likelihood of horizontal R&D cooperation is positive and statistically significant only when they are above a threshold. Both the value, and the precision of the estimates, increase with the information flow which firms report receiving from their competitors.

Mots clés: cooperation; research and development; spillovers

Mots clés: recherche et développement; transferts d'information

Domaines: Economies et finances

Désiré Vencatachellum, Bruno Versaevel. Horizontal R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Evidence from France. 2006. ⟨halshs-00142511⟩