Cooperation and the efficiency of regional R&D activities
研究了11个欧洲地区制造业企业的合作行为与研发活动效率的关系，发现两者在实证上关联不大，合作在区域创新系统中的作用仍不明确。
This paper investigates the relationship between the cooperative behaviour of manufacturing establishments in a region and the efficiency of their R&D activities, using data for 11 European regions. Some significant differences in the attitude towards R&D cooperation as well as with regard to the efficiency of R&D activities between the regions can be found. However, these two issues appear to a large degree to be empirically unrelated. Therefore, the role of R&D cooperation in regional innovation systems remains unclear. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.