International and domestic R&D coopetition: the influence of information redundancy on innovation performance
研究了研发竞合的地理位置（国内/国际）和从竞争对手获取的先前知识（信息冗余）如何影响企业的新市场和新产品创新，发现国际竞合更利于新市场创新，国内竞合更利于新产品创新，而信息冗余会削弱竞合对创新的积极作用。
We delve into the heterogeneity of R&D coopetition to understand when this complex relationship contributes to innovation. To do this, we examine two dimensions: (i) geographic location of the competitor – in the home-country or abroad; and (ii) prior knowledge acquired from competitors that leads to the theoretical concept of ‘information redundancy.’ We analyse how these dimensions result in innovations with different levels of novelty (new-to-the-market and new-to-the-firm). Using a large panel data of firms (2004–2016), we find that international R&D coopetition exerts a higher positive effect on new-to-the-market innovations than does domestic R&D coopetition. In contrast, the positive impact of domestic R&D coopetition is higher on new-to-the-firm innovations. For its part, prior knowledge from competitors weakens the relations between R&D coopetition and innovation performance, thus revealing the importance of information redundancy in bettering our understanding of the innovation results of R&D coopetition.