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Indian Suppliers R&D Experience and Innovation Success

Manoj Kumar, Jyoti Raman and Priya Raman

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This paper analyses the role of Indian suppliers’ R&D experience in their innovative success using a representative sample of Indian suppliers for the period 2000-2013. Using count data models and within an innovation production function approach, we investigate the influence of Indian suppliers’ R&D experience in the achievement of innovative results. To estimate R&D experience, partially unobserved, we estimate a duration model and use the obtained results and a non-parametric procedure to impute R&D experience when unobserved. We obtain that R&D effectiveness increases along the R&D history of the Indian supplier.?

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