Shared pain, half a pain? ‘Overcoming’ barriers to innovation through cooperation

Abstract

In recent empirical literature an increasing attention is devoted to the obstacles that hamper innovation, their impact on firms’ engagement in innovation and their effect on the propensity to innovate (e.g. Baldwin and Lin, 2002; Galia and Legros, 2004; Tiwari et al., 2008; Savignac, 2008; Iammarino et al., 2009; Mancusi and Vezzulli, 2010; Galia et al., 2012; Blanchard et al., 2013).