caa a22 4500 445854332 CHVBK 20180317145423.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00191-011-0228-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00191-011-0228-2 Lhuillery Stéphane MTEI-CEMI, College du Management de la Technologie, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Odyssea 1.18, Station 5, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut Absorptive capacity, efficiency effect and competitors' spillovers [Elektronische Daten] [Stéphane Lhuillery] Standard innovation surveys do not consider incoming spillovers for non-innovative firms. As a consequence, empirical works may overestimate the absorptive capacity effect, particularly among competitors. The Swiss innovation surveys presented here measure the importance of knowledge for both innovating and non-innovating firms. This original feature enables us to show that knowledge from rivals actually deters manufacturing firms from engaging in R&D activities. We therefore provide stronger evidence that the efficiency effect due to intra-industry spillovers is larger than that generally estimated by data from standard surveys. The R&D based absorptive capacity is weaker than expected, and non-innovative firms as well as non-R&D firms heavily rely on their rivals' knowledge to maintain their technological capacities. Springer-Verlag, 2011 R&D nationallicence Intra-industry spillovers nationallicence Absorptive capacity nationallicence Innovation surveys nationallicence Journal of Evolutionary Economics Springer-Verlag 21/4(2011-10-01), 649-663 0936-9937 21:4<649 2011 21 191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-011-0228-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-011-0228-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lhuillery Stéphane MTEI-CEMI, College du Management de la Technologie, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Odyssea 1.18, Station 5, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Evolutionary Economics Springer-Verlag 21/4(2011-10-01), 649-663 0936-9937 21:4<649 2011 21 191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer