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Absorptive capacity, efficiency effect and competitors' spillovers

Lhuillery, Stéphane

In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2011, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 649-663

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    Titre
    • Absorptive capacity, efficiency effect and competitors' spillovers
    Auteur
    • Lhuillery, Stéphane. MTEI-CEMI, College du Management de la Technologie, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Odyssea 1.18, Station 5, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2011, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 649-663. Springer-Verlag
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    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:318523
    Summary
    Standard innovation surveys do not consider incoming spillovers for non-innovative firms. As a consequence, empirical works may overestimate the absorptive capacity effect, particularly among competitors. The Swiss innovation surveys presented here measure the importance of knowledge for both innovating and non-innovating firms. This original feature enables us to show that knowledge from rivals actually deters manufacturing firms from engaging in R&D activities. We therefore provide stronger evidence that the efficiency effect due to intra-industry spillovers is larger than that generally estimated by data from standard surveys. The R&D based absorptive capacity is weaker than expected, and non-innovative firms as well as non-R&D firms heavily rely on their rivals' knowledge to maintain their technological capacities