Darvas, Zsolt, Pisani-Ferry, Jean, Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Santos, Indhira, Sapir, André, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, ...
These Memos, addressed to the next Commission President and to the new European commissioners, are written by Bruegel Scholars and edited by Senior Research Fellow André Sapir and focus on key...
Karl Aiginger, Scientific Committee, Steve Davies, Ian Miles, Reinhilde Veugelers, Wilhelm Kohler, ...
Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer. The work could not have been performed without the programming of Marianne Schöberl and Wolfgang Klameth, the project management by Dagmar Guttmann, and the research...
Europe's Position in Quality Competition (2009)
Karl Aiginger, Scientific Committee, Steve Davies, Ian Miles, Reinhilde Veugelers, Isabel Grilo, ...
have been performed without the programming of Marianne Schöberl and Wolfgang Klameth, the project management by Dagmar Guttmann, and the research assistance of Traude Novak and Eva Sokoll.
A lifeline for Europe's young radical innovators. Bruegel Policy Brief 2009/01, March 2009 (2009)
Europe’s young, dynamic, high-growth firms are in a precarious position, despite their pivotal role in bringing radically new innovations to market. EU start-ups face higher entry and growth...
On Young Innovative Companies: Why they matter and how (not) to policy support them (2008)
Schneider, Cedric, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Recent policy initiatives in the EU aim at supporting so-called Young Innovative Companies (YICs). This paper provides empirical evidence from German CIS data on the innovative performances of this...
Towards Evidence-based Reform of European Universities (2008)
Van Der Ploeg, Frederick, Veugelers, Reinhilde
After the Bologna agreement and the Lisbon Agenda, reform of European university systems has been higher on the political agenda. This is necessary, since most European universities have been...
In search of performance effects of (in)direct industry science links (2008)
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde, Zuniga, Pluvia
Using patent data from the European Patent Office combined with firm-level data, we evaluate the contribution of science linkages to the innovation performance of a firm at the patent level. We...
Champions of Revealing – The Role of Open Source Developers in Commercial Firms (2008)
Joachim Henkel, Eric Brousseau, Linus Dahl, Marc Gruber, Dietmar Harhoff, Simone Käs, ...
The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSS community is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principalagent issue due to the...
Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruno Cassiman
External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to originate from outside of their national borders. This explains the...
External Technology Sources: Embodied or Disembodied Technology Acquisition (2007)
Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde, Zuniga, Pluvia
This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a sample of Belgian firms (CIS-3). While at the sectoral level links to science are...
VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick, VEUGELERS, Reinhilde
Discussions on problems in higher education in Europe typically focus on rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, the lack...
Siegel, Donald S., Veugelers, Reinhilde, Wright, Mike
The recent increase in the rate of commercialization of intellectual property at US and European universities has important performance and policy implications. We review recent studies of the...
Licensing of University Inventions: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office (2005)
Macho Stadler, Inés, Pérez Castrillo, J. David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Proponemos un modelo teórico que ayuda a explicar el papel de las Oficinas de Transferencia de Tecnología (OTRI). Utilizando un marco en el que las empresas tienen información incompleta respecto...
Licensing of University Inventions: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office (2005)
Macho Stadler, Inés, Pérez Castrillo, J. David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Proponemos un modelo teórico que ayuda a explicar el papel de las Oficinas de Transferencia de Tecnología (OTRI). Utilizando un marco en el que las empresas tienen información incompleta respecto...
A survey of the literature on the economic impact of Lisbon-type reforms (2005)
Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Adriaan Dierx, The Alfonso, John Berrigan, Marie Donnay, Mark Hayden, ...
The economic costs of non-Lisbon A survey of the literature on the economic impact of Lisbon-type reforms by Directorate-General for
Director-general For, Martin Hallet, Karel Havik, Angela Hughes, Francesca Di, Kieran Mc Morrow, ...
Studies and Research. Karl Pichelmann and Reinhilde Veugelers served as co-ordinating editors of the report.
Endogeneizing know-how flows through the nature of R&D investments (2000)
Pérez-Castrillo, David, Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firms innovation process with this firms investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
Endogeneizing Know-How Flows through the Nature of R&D Investments (2000)
Cassiman, Bruno, Pérez Castrillo, David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firms innovation process with this firms investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
Veugelers, Reinhilde, Cassiman, Bruno
External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to originate from outside of their national borders. This explains the...
External Technology Sources: Embodied or Disembodied Technology Acquisition (2000)
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of...
Endogeneizing know-how flows through the nature of R&D investments (2000)
Pérez Castrillo, David, Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firms innovation process with this firms investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence (1998)
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific...
Top Research Productivity and its Persistence
Kelchtermans, Stijn, Veugelers, Reinhilde
The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the...
Strategic R&D Location by Multinational Firms: Spillovers, Technology Sourcing and Competition
Belderbos, Rene, Lykogianni, Elissavet, Veugelers, Reinhilde
We analyse strategic interaction in R&D internationalization decisions by two multinational firms competing both abroad and in their home markets and examine different incentives for foreign R&D...
Endogeneizing know-how flows through the nature of R&D investments
David Pérez-Castrillo, Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers
In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firms innovation process with this firms investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
Corporate structure of leading firms in Europe: does country origin still matter?
Isabelle De Voldere, Leo Sleuwaegen, An Van Pelt, Reinhilde Veugelers
This article traces the changing impact of national differences on the geographical and industry diversification strategy of leading firms in Europe in 1987-2000, a period of intensified European...
Union Wage Bargaining and European Antidumping Policy in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
Konings, Jozef, Vandenbussche, Hylke, Veugelers, Reinhilde
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the interaction between union bargaining power and the likelihood and type of European antidumping measures (duties and undertakings) in imperfectly...
This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, private returns to education and the funding problems of...
Science linkages and innovation performance: An analysis on CIS-3 firms in Belgium
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde, Zuniga, Pluvia
This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a sample of Belgian firms (CIS-3). While at the sectoral level links to science are...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper analyzes the choice between different external technology sourcing activities of a firm. On the one hand, the firm can acquire new technology which is embodied in personnel. On the other...
Discussions on problems in higher education in Europe typically focus on rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, the lack...
Assessing the Foreign Control of Production of Technology: The Case of a Small Open Economy
Cincera, Michele, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
International R&D activities have grown significantly over the last two decades. Both the number of actors involved, as well as the importance of the technological activity carried out abroad, has...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
The use of FDI as a channel of international spillovers is by now fairly established in the empirical literature on innovation and growth. It is often argued that subsidiaries of foreign MNEs are a...
Michele Cincera, Lieselot Kempen, Reinhilde Veugelers, Carolina Villegas Sanchez
Using Belgian firm level data on R&D and productivity, this paper provides further evidence on the important role of knowledge in explaining performance at the firm level, by augmenting the classical...
Reputation as a Mechanism Alleviating Opportunistic Host Government Behavior against MNEs.
The strategic options available to multinational enterprises and host governments, when the first contemplate investment in the latter's country, are marked by the possibility that no entry...
Stable R&D Cooperation with Spillovers.
Kesteloot, Katrien, Veugelers, Reinhilde
The literature on the incentives for R&D cooperation with spillovers typically deals only with the factors affecting cooperative profits. This paper focuses on the incentives to cheat and the...
Designing Contracts for University Spin-offs
InÉs Macho-Stadler, David Pérez-Castrillo, Reinhilde Veugelers
"We provide a theoretical model about how to design academic spin-off contracts between the university technology transfer office (TTO), the researcher, and the venture capitalist. The optimal...
Licensing of university inventions: The role of a technology transfer office
Macho-Stadler, Ines, Perez-Castrillo, David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Multinational knowledge spillovers with decentralised R&D: a game-theoretic approach
Francesca Sanna-Randaccio, Reinhilde Veugelers
This paper provides a theoretical model of the trade-offs that an MNE faces when organising its R&D as decentralised or centralised. R&D decentralisation avoids having to adapt centrally developed...
Locational Determinants and Ranking of Host Countries: An Empirical Assessment.
An empirical analysis of the intra-OECD distribution of foreign affiliates among OECD host countries, taking into account the simultaneity between local production and exports as modes of foreign...
Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies
Belderbos, Rene, Carree, Martin, Diederen, Bert, Lokshin, Boris, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Endogenizing know-how flows through the nature of R&D investments
Cassiman, Bruno, Perez-Castrillo, David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to originate from outside of their national borders. This explains the...
R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Different aspects of external information flows have typically been lumped together under the name "spillovers". We attempt to refine our understanding of external information flows through the...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order to successfully innovate, the firm will combine different innovation activities....
Cassiman, Bruno, Colombo, Massimo, Garrone, Paola, Veugelers, Reinhilde
While the impact of M&A on R&D and innovation examined at the aggregate level left inconclusive evidence, we find that at the level of the R&D process both the technological and the market...
European Anti-dumping Policy and the Profitability of National and International Collusion
Vandenbussche, Hylke, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper is the first to study the effect of European antidumping policy on market structure, i.e. the incentives for firms to engage in a domestic or international cartel in a multi-stage setting....
Undertakings and Antidumping Jumping FDI in Europe
Belderbos, Rene, Vandenbussche, Hylke, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This paper studies the effects of EU antidumping policy when foreign firms have the possibility to 'jump' antidumping measures by engaging in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the EU. Using a...
R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to distinguish different aspects of external information flows. We construct firm-specific...
Endogenizing Know-How Flows Through the Nature of R&D Investments
Cassiman, Bruno, Pérez-Castrillo, J David, Veugelers, Reinhilde
In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This Paper provides a theoretical model on the trade-offs an MNE face when assigning subsidiaries an active role in innovation and organizing its R&D decentralized versus centralized. R&D...
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities....
R&D Cooperation Between Firms and Universities: Some Empirical Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
This Paper presents an econometric analysis of firm and industry characteristics conducive to cooperation with universities, using Community Innovation Survey data for Belgium. We find that large...
Heterogeneity in R&D Cooperation Strategies
Belderbos, Rene, Carree, Martin A, Diederen, Bert, Lokshin, Boris, Veugelers, Reinhilde
We explore heterogeneities in the determinants of innovating firms’ decisions to engage in R&D cooperation, differentiating between three types of cooperation partners: suppliers and customers...
Unionization and European Antidumping Protection.
Vandenbussche, Hylke, Veugelers, Reinhilde, Konings, Jozef
In recent decades, the WTO has resulted in a worldwide reduction of tariffs and VERs. Instead a new type of trade policy has emerged in the form of antidumping measures. In principle their use should...
Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific...
R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence
Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which...
Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruno Cassiman
External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to originate from outside of their national borders. This explains the...
External Technology Sources: Embodied or Disembodied Technology Acquisition
Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of...
Endogeneizing Know-How Flows through the Nature of R&D Investments
Bruno Cassiman, David Pérez Castrillo, Reinhilde Veugelers
In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied...
Reforming European Universities: Scope for an Evidence-Based Process
Universities are key players in the successful transition to a knowledge-based economy and society. However, this crucial sector of society needs restructuring if Europe is not to lose out in the...
Strategic R&D Location by Multinational Firms: Spillovers, Technology Sourcing, and Competition
René Belderbos, Elissavet Lykogianni, Reinhilde Veugelers
"This paper develops a model of strategic interaction in R&D internationalization decisions between two multinational firms, competing both abroad and in their home markets. It examines different...
In search of performance effects of (in)direct industry science links
Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers, Pluvia Zuniga
Using patent data from the European Patent Office combined with firm-level data, we evaluate the contribution of science linkages to the innovation performance of a firm at the patent level. We...
Strategic R&D Location in European Manufacturing Industries
René Belderbos, Elissavet Lykogianni, Reinhilde Veugelers
Multinational firms, R&D, R&D spillovers, FDI,
Bargained shares in joint ventures among asymmetric partners: Is the matthew effect catalyzing?
Reinhilde Veugelers, Katrien Kesteloot
asymmetry, research and development, joint ventures, sharing rules, L13, O13,
The internationalisation of technology: a more complete picture for Belgium
VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, CINCERA, Michèle, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Assessing the foreign control of production of technology: the case of a small open economy
VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, CINCERA, Michèle, Veugelers, Reinhilde
VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, CINCERA, Michèle, Kempen, Lieselot, Veugelers, Reinhilde, VILLEGAS SANCHEZ, Carolina
Assessing the foreign control of production of technology: the case of a small open economy
CINCERA, Michèle, VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
The internationalisation of the production of technology: a more complete picture for Belgium
CINCERA, Michèle, VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
CINCERA, Michèle, Kempen, Lieselot, VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde, VILLEGAS SANCHEZ, Carolina
Productivity growth; R&D; International R&D coopérations; Belgian firms
CINCERA, Michèle, Kempen, Lieselot, Veugelers, Reinhilde, VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, VILLEGAS SANCHEZ, Carolina
Assessing the foreign control of production of technology: the case of a small open economy
CINCERA, Michèle, VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
On Young Innovative Companies: Why they matter and how (not) to policy support them
Schneider, Cedric, Veugelers, Reinhilde
Recent policy initiatives in the EU aim at supporting so-called Young Innovative Companies (YICs). This paper provides empirical evidence from German CIS data on the innovative performances of this...
Rym Ayadi, Beat Bernet, Simona Bovha-Padilla, Tom Franck, Nancy Huyghebaert, Vitor Gaspar, ...
Small and medium-sized enterprises are a centrepiece of Europe’s economy. Due to their limited size and their generally lower creditworthiness, their access to financial market instruments is more...
Diversity of science linkages and innovation performance: some empirical evidence from Flemish firms
Cassiman, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde, Zuniga, Pluvia
This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a sample of Belgian firms. While at the industry level links to science are...