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Should Firms Outsource their Basic Research? The Impact of Firm Size on In-House versus Outsourced R&D Productivity

机译：公司应该将基础研究外包吗？公司规模对内部研发效率与外包研发生产率的影响

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It has been long known that firms can benefit substantially from basic research. Recently, however, the open innovation literature has questioned whether firms should conduct these basic research activities in-house and has suggested that outsourcing is more appropriate both for small and large firms. However, existing empirical work investigates the performance implications of R&D outsourcing in general, but does not take into account the differences between basic research on the one hand and more applied R&D on the other. This paper therefore studies whether outsourced basic research indeed contributes equally to firm productivity as in-house basic research, while explicitly incorporating the moderating effect of firm size. A production function approach is applied to firm-level data stemming from three waves of the Flemish R&D survey, combined with data from firms' annual accounts. The results show that small firms benefit from outsourcing their basic research activities. For medium-sized and large firms, however, in-house basic research is more productive than outsourced basic research. These results contradict the general belief that small firms benefit little from basic research and cast doubts on the recent trend to close medium-sized and large firms' corporate labs.
机译：长期以来，企业可以从基础研究中受益匪浅。但是，最近，开放式创新文献质疑企业是否应在内部开展这些基础研究活动，并建议外包对于小型和大型企业都更合适。但是，现有的实证研究一般是对研发外包的绩效影响进行调查，但没有考虑到一方面基础研究与另一方面更为应用的研发之间的差异。因此，本文研究了外包基础研究是否确实对公司生产率产生了与内部基础研究同样的贡献，同时明确纳入了公司规模的调节作用。生产函数方法应用于来自佛拉芒研发调查的三波浪的企业级数据，并结合了企业年度账目数据。结果表明，小公司受益于将基础研究活动外包。但是，对于中型和大型公司而言，内部基础研究比外包基础研究更具生产力。这些结果与普遍的看法相反，即人们普遍认为，小型公司几乎不会从基础研究中受益，并且对关闭中型和大型公司的公司实验室的最新趋势表示怀疑。

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    《Creativity and innovation management》 |2014年第3期|303-317|共15页
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    Petra Andries; Susanne Thorwarth;

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    Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University;

    Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the Faculty of Business and Economics at KULeuven in Belgium;

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