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Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries to move one step further, combining the two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a...
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Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities … research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions we use … from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on civil …
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We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly …
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We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...
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This paper discusses the link between Ramp;D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European Ramp;D investors. The main...
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We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four …
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because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise in UK universities, often come under pressure to assess research …
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