Characteristics of businesses with high R&D investment

J. Zif; D. McCarthy; A. Israeli

doi:10.1016/0048-7333(90)90051-7

Characteristics of businesses with high R&D investment

J. Zif^*, D. McCarthy, A. Israeli

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Coller School of Management

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The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of firms with high R&D investment in comparison with other industrial businesses. The approach to the study consists of the following aspects: 1. (1) The paper is based on a general framework of variables which characterize businesses with high R&D investment. 2. (2) No assumption is made about a clear direction of cause and effect. 3. (3) The interpretation of high R&D investment is operationalized by selecting businesses with R&D to sales ratios substantially (two times) above average for industrial businesses. In this paper we call them "R&D businesses". 4. (4) The sampling units for analysis are business units from the PIMS data base which have the advantage of known levels of R&D investment. 5. (5) Two forms of analysis are presented: a binary regression of groups similar to discriminant analysis and a multiple regression analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	435-445
Number of pages	11
Journal	Research Policy
Volume	19
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(90)90051-7
State	Published - Oct 1990

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