. Consequently, the goal of our evaluation is to assess the impact of the policy on equity, debt and employment. Using various …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … their innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending … substantially reduced innovation expenditure not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years …, indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7 % due to the pandemic. In 2022 …

innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects … innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects …