Publications by Stéphane Lhuillery

Do Firms Know the Scope of their R&D Network? An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Network Awareness on French Survey Data

Although research and development (R&D) networks influence the innovation performance of their members, firms may not be fully aware of the scope of their network. In particular, due to cost reasons, they may not be fully informed of their “indirect ties”, ...

Taylor & Francis2011

A Functional Perspective on Learning and Innovation: Investigating the Organization of Absorptive Capacity

Stéphane Lhuillery, Marcellus Bogers

We investigate the intra-organizational antecedents of firm-level absorptive capacity (AC). Specifically, we examine how the functional areas of R&D, manufacturing and marketing contribute to the absorption of knowledge coming from different external knowl ...

Taylor & Francis2011

The impact of corporate governance practices on R&D efforts: a look at shareholders’ rights, cross-listing and control pyramid

Stéphane Lhuillery

The paper considers the impact of multiple shareholder-oriented governance practices on R&D decisions. Based on a sample of 5,528 firms belonging to 110 large French listed business groups, our results substantiate the idea that shareholder-oriented govern ...

Oxford University Press2011

Absorptive capacity, efficiency effect and competitors’ spillovers

Stéphane Lhuillery

Standard innovation surveys do not consider incoming spillovers for non-innovative firms. As a consequence, usual empirical works may overestimate the absorptive capacity effect, particularly among competitors. The Swiss innovation surveys presented here m ...

Springer Verlag2011

Structural Changes in Industrial R&D in Europe and the US

Dominique Foray, Stéphane Lhuillery

We analyse the structural changes that have characterised the organisation of industrial R&D over the last 25 years. Taking Mowery's work (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2009, 18(1), 1-50) on the US as a starting point, we reconsider the different aspect ...

Beech Tree Publishing, Oxford2010

Do firms know the scope of their R&D network? An empirical investigation of network awareness on French survey data

Stéphane Lhuillery

Although research and development (R&D) networks influence the innovation performance of their members, firms may not be fully aware of the scope of their network. In particular, due to cost reasons, they may not be fully informed of their “indirect ties”, ...

EPFL-CDM Working Papers Series2010

R&D cooperation and failures in innovation projects: Empirical evidence from French CIS data

Stéphane Lhuillery

The second French Community Innovation Survey (CIS) indicates that 14% of R&D collaborating firms had to abandon or delay their innovation projects due to difficulties in their partnerships, an outcome which we term “cooperation failures”. Controlling for ...

2009

How to play the “Names Game”: Patent retrieval comparing different heuristics

Stéphane Lhuillery, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

Patent statistics represent a critical tool for scholars, statisticians and policy makers interested in innovation and intellectual property rights. Many analyses are based on heterogeneous methods delineating the inventors’ or firms’ patent portfolios wit ...

Elsevier2009

How to play 'the Names Game': Patent retrieval comparing different heuristics

Stéphane Lhuillery, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

Patent statistics represent a critical tool for scholars, statisticians and policy makers interested in innovation and intellectual property rights. Many analyses are based on heterogeneous methods delineating the inventors' or firms' patent portfolios wit ...

2009

R&D cooperation and failures in innovation projects: Empirical evidence from French CIS data

Stéphane Lhuillery

The second French Community Innovation Survey (CIS) indicates that 14% of R&D collaborating firms had to abandon or delay their innovation projects due to difficulties in their partnerships, an outcome which we term “cooperation failures”. Controlling for ...

2008