Impactos da cooperação em atividades de P&D das firmas brasileiras

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Alexandre Gervásio de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/152
• topic: Inovação; Cooperação em P&D; Propensity Score Matching; Innovation; Cooperation in R&D; Propensity Score Matching; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

Cooperation between firms, research institutes and the private sector stimulates the improvement of spillovers between those economic agents. This study aimed to analyze the factors associated with the decision of manufacturing firms to engage on R&D cooperative activities and its effect on their performance. The methodology used was based on the estimation of Probit models that were used to estimate the propensity score for determining the impact of cooperation on the firm s performance. We used microdata from the Brazilian Survey of Innovation of 2008 (Pintec). In the analysis of R&D cooperation of manufacturing firms, we identified the appropriability as determinant of the decision to cooperate, which shows the concern of a company about the free-riding effect. The incoming spillovers and complementarities show the importance given to the information flows in the decision to cooperate on R&D. The cost and risk sharing emphasize the lack of private funding and a consolidated venture capital market, beyond the risk perception of the innovative activity. The importance of skills and absorptive capacity of firms is shown by the significance of firm size. The cost and risk sharing, incoming spillovers and complementarities were relevant in determining the decision of R&D cooperation in high technology intensity manufacturing sectors. The analysis of determinants of cooperation on R&D for manufacturing medium-high technological intensity firms, and the analysis of cooperation of such firms with competitors and research institutions has three systematically significant determinants: cost and risk sharing, firm size and complementarities. Concerning R&D cooperation in medium-low technological intensity manufacturing firms, incoming spillovers were systematically significant. It is noteworthy that, in this case, R&D intensity has a negative effect on the cooperation propensity. Regarding the determinants of cooperative agreements for manufacturing firms with low technological intensity, we observed that the appropriability represents learning about control of information flows. The determinants of R&D cooperation have specific standards according to the technological intensity of industry sectors, so that measures adopted in favor of R&D cooperation can affect industries differently. Concerning the impact of cooperation on firm s performance, we conclude that R&D cooperation with research institutions has a positive effect on revenues of innovating firms in the manufacturing industry and on manufacturing firms of high technological intensity. In this case, the results indicate the influence of cooperation on the success rate of product innovations. R&D cooperation has the same effect on innovative firms of low technological intensity sectors, however in this case we believe that there is a higher success rate of process innovations. Cooperation of innovative firms in high technological intensity sectors with universities and research institutes and cooperation of innovative firms in low technological intensity sectors have a positive impact on exports. Moreover, R&D cooperation increases intramural R&D investments on innovative firms in low technological intensity manufacturing sectors.