Almus, Matthias; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002 - This version: August 2002
This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … Germany. The main question in this context is whether public funds stimulate R&D activities or simply crowd out privately … financed R&D. Empirically, we investigate the average causal effects of all public R&D schemes in Eastern Germany using a non …