The contrasting effects of active and passive cooperation on innovation and productivity: Evidence from British local innovation networks
研究了企业间主动合作与被动溢出对创新和生产率的不同影响，发现与竞争对手的主动合作会降低创新率，而与供应链网络的合作则促进创新。
This paper studies the contrasting effects on innovations and productivity arising from active cooperation in innovation activities among competitors and from passive cooperation induced by these activities’ spillovers. A three-stage productivity function is estimated showing that firms’ innovations are supported by their active cooperation within their local innovation network of suppliers and customers and by passive cooperation through sectors’ spillovers. Contrary to this, active cooperation in innovation activities among competitors reduces their innovation rates and, indirectly, productivity. Hence, innovation policies and strategies aimed at restraining active cooperation among competitors, while encouraging it within a firm's local innovation network, may contribute to the system-wide introduction of process and product innovations and ultimately productivity.