Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national … levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of … combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for innovation into the broader framework of public policies to stimulate …

The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. -- Innovation Policy ; Subsidies ; R&D ; SMEs ; International Collaboration … ; Treatment Effects ; Innovation Performance …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …