Are there positive or negative externalities in knowledge production? We analyze whether current contributions to … knowledge production increase or decrease the future growth of knowledge. To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment …

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known …

facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … alternative cluster measures which capture industry, technology and knowledge dimensions of clusters. Regardless of the measure …

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … however only holds for certain sources of public funding and certain types of innovation output. Innovation support from the …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company … leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical …

innovation: regulations, R&D subsidies and knowledge infrastructure (i.e. basic research at universities). We synthesize the … procurement and knowledge spillovers from universities propel innovation success equally. In a second step, we explore whether …Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …