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Are R&D collaborative agreements persistent at the firm level? Empirical evidence for the Spanish case

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We provide evidence on the dynamics in firms’ R&D cooperation behaviour. Our main objective is to analyse if R&D collaborative agreements are persistent at the firm level, and in such a case, to study what are the main drivers of this phenomenon. R&D cooperation activities at the firm level can be persistent due to true state dependence, this implying that cooperating in a given period enhances the probability of doing it in the subsequent period and it can also be a consequence of firms’ individual heterogeneity, so that certain firms have certain characteristics that make them more likely to carry out technological alliances.

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Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública

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cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Badillo Enciso et al., 2014

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Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA))

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Are R&D collaborative agreements persistent at the firm level? Empirical evidence for the Spanish case