Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Stéphane Lhuillery
Author-X-Name-First: Stéphane
Author-X-Name-Last: Lhuillery
Author-Email: stephane.lhuillery@epfl.ch
Author-Workplace-Name: Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Author-Name: Arman Avadikyan
Author-X-Name-First: Arman
Author-X-Name-Last: Avadikyan
Author-Email: avady@cournot.u-strasbg.fr
Author-Workplace-Name: Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg

Title: European mechanical companies: Technological differences and organisational similarities
Abstract: All in all, French, Italian and British companies are surpassed technologically more often than not by
Swiss, Austrian and German companies. This technological delay does however not show up at the
organisational level.

Creation-Date: 2006-03
Classification-JEL: O32, O33, O57, L23
Keywords: R&D, innovation, organization, international comparison

Handle: RePEc:cmi:wpaper:cemi-report-2006-013