Determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian firms

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian innovative firms. The paper investigates the determinants of cooperation in innovation considering the types of partners, as well as the determinants of cooperation with the foreign market and with Brazilian institutions, considering the types of partners. Based on data from PINTEC 2011 probabilistic models were estimated considering a significant sample of innovative Brazilian firms. The results suggest that R&D expenditure, firms’ characteristics, government support, the main sources of information and obstacles to innovation explain the cooperation in innovation.