Innovation cooperation in East Germany – only a half-way success
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The paper informs about innovation cooperation in East Germany. Besides a description of the cooperation behavior in general, it focuses on the question whether cooperating enterprises are more innovative and thus more productive than non-cooperating firms. A comparison between East and West German firms is being made. It can be shown that there are no deficiencies in cooperation frequency or cooperation continuity in East Germany compared to West Germany, and differences in cooperation partner priorities only reflect the given structural differences. Cooperating enterprises in East and West Germany are indeed more innovative than non-cooperating firms, but there remains a clear productivity gap between East and West German cooperating firms. Furthermore, within East Germany non-cooperating firms are slightly more productive than cooperating firms. Possible reasons for these rather unexpected findings are being discussed in this paper.
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