Austrian Research Promotion Agency, allows me to examine the effect of research grants on firms' patenting outcomes. My … estimates suggest that a government research grant increases the propensity to file a patent application with the European …

A major source of research funding for university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg …, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National … Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency in Luxembourg, increase the scientific output of university professors …

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by …-intensive industries. Beyond that, we observe positive trends in publishing in basic research journals compared to journals focused on … applied research, and publishing in collaboration with academic partners compared to publishing alone. Thus, our results paint …