The name is absent

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Figure 1: Companies that joined R&D co-operations divided according their
branch of industry

O not participating
in R&D co-operations

For companies of other branches in the manufacturing industry a significant
deviation in the share of R&D co-operations compared to those of the service
sector cannot be verified. It can be noted that companies that belong to re-
search-intensive branches - the investment goods industry and the producer
goods industry - do have high shares of R&D co-operations compared to other
branches within the producing sector. But a specific branch in which R&D co-
operations are especially common cannot be identified.

Plant size

Another factor that seems to influence the willingness to co-operate in R&D is
the size of the enterprise. The higher the number of employees the more likely
it is that a company takes part on an R&D co-operation. The positive premise
of the regression coefficient indicates this. As figure 2 shows, among compa-
nies the propensity to attend an R&D co-operation inclines constantly with a
rising number of employees. In the group of firms with 200 to 499 employees
the highest share of co-operating companies can be observed. In comparison
large enterprises do not participate as often in R&D co-operations.

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