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    Rights statement: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Industrial and Corporate Change following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Luca Berchicci, Jeroen P. J. de Jong, and Mark Freel Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity Ind Corp Change (2016) 25 (3): 429-446 first published online June 30, 2015 doi:10.1093/icc/dtv031 is available online at: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/25/3/429

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Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>25/05/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Industrial and Corporate Change
Issue number3
Volume25
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)429-446
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date30/06/15
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Collaboration with geographically distant partners may enhance a firm’s innovative performance. In practice, however, this may be complicated as personal contacts are more limited so that effective search and transfer of remote partners’ tacit knowledge is hampered. We tested the potential moderating role of R&D intensity which, by indicating technology-oriented absorptive capacity, may mitigate the problems associated with remote collaboration. Drawing on survey data of 248 high-tech small firms, we find that remote collaboration is positively related with innovation performance, but at low R&D intensity, the relationship vanishes.

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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Industrial and Corporate Change following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Luca Berchicci, Jeroen P. J. de Jong, and Mark Freel Remote collaboration and innovative performance: the moderating role of R&D intensity Ind Corp Change (2016) 25 (3): 429-446 first published online June 30, 2015 doi:10.1093/icc/dtv031 is available online at: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/25/3/429