. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …