Impact of External Knowledge Acquisition Strategies on Innovation – A Comparative Study Based on Dutch and Swiss Panel Data
KOF Working Paper No. 325
28 Pages Posted: 24 Jan 2013
Date Written: January 16, 2013
Abstract
There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’, on firm’s product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for complementarity effects in the simultaneous use of the two strategies, and in the intensity of their use. Our results based on large panels of Dutch and Swiss innovating firms, suggest that while both ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’ have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them simultaneously leads to higher innovation performance. Results from the Dutch sample provide some indication, that there are positive economies of scope in doing external and cooperative R&D simultaneously conditional on doing internal R&D.
Keywords: Open innovation, R&D collaboration, make, buy strategies
JEL Classification: O31, O32
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