Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Narula, Rajneesh
Author-Email: r.narula@reading.ac.uk 
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Reading Business School
Author-Name: Santangelo, Grazia D.
Author-Email: grsanta@unict.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Catania
Title: Location and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry
Abstract: This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic 
	 scenario the location of a firm's innovative activities plays an 
	 important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. 
	 Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as 
	 a means to limit knowledge flows and protect competences, rather than to 
	 promote knowledge flows. By drawing on a novel dataset matching 
	 alliances and patent data for the European ICT industry, the econometric 
	 analysis shows that partners' prior co-location (at both national and 
	 sub-national regional level), previous ties and technological overlap 
	 matter in the choice of partner, while common nationality has a negative 
	 impact on alliance formation.
Classification-JEL: D23, F23, O18, O32, R3
Keywords: alliances, strategy, efficiency, R&D location
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2007
Number: 008
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-008.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2007008