The innovation returns to internal and external R&D experience

  1. Pilar Beneito 1
  2. María Engracia Rochina Barrachina 1
  3. Amparo Sanchis Llopis 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València (ESP)
Zeitschrift:
Cuadernos económicos de ICE

ISSN: 0210-2633,  2340-9037

Datum der Publikation: 2015

Titel der Ausgabe: Contribuciones a la economía de la innovación: análisis de la I+D+i empresarial

Nummer: 89

Seiten: 61-84

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.32796/CICE.2015.89.6095 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

Andere Publikationen in: Cuadernos económicos de ICE

Zusammenfassung

This paper analyses the role of learning in firms’ innovation success distinguishing between learning arising from the internal organization of R&D activities and learning from externally contracting these activities. We use a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990-2006, and within an innovation production function approach, we estimate count data models to investigate the influence of firms’ internal R&D experience as compared to experience from externally contracted R&D in the achievement of product innovations. Our results show that learning is important when firms organize R&D activities internally. However, experience from externally contracted R&D activities does not seem to influence the number of product innovations, if not accompanied by internal R&D activities.

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