caa a22 4500 467993939 CHVBK 20180323112552.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00389891 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00389891 Firm size, university based research, and the returns to R&D [Elektronische Daten] [Albert Link, John Rees] This paper compares university-based research relationships between small and large firms as an explanation for the difference in innovative activity across firm sizes. We test the hypothesis that there are diseconomies of scale in producing innovations in large firms due to the inherent bureaucratization process which inhibits both innovative activity as well as the speed with which new inventions move through the corporate system towards the market. By utilizing university-based research relationships, small firms are able to avoid bureaucratic inefficiencies. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Link Albert Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412, Greensboro, NC, USA aut Rees John Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412, Greensboro, NC, USA aut Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/1(1990-03-01), 25-31 0921-898X 2:1<25 1990 2 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389891 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389891 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Link Albert Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412, Greensboro, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rees John Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412, Greensboro, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/1(1990-03-01), 25-31 0921-898X 2:1<25 1990 2 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer