R&D Cooperation between Spanish Firms and Scientific Partners: What is the Role of Tertiary Education?

This paper explores the factors that determine firm’s RD and in the second stage the factors that affect the choice of partners. And third, we apply an ordered probit model to test the marginal effects of explanatory variables on the different partners. Here we contrast some of the most interesting empirical hypotheses of previous studies, and which emphasize the role of employees with degrees and PhDs in facilitating cooperative R&D between firms and scientific partners.

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