Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public …

This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider … level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research do not …

SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … external resources. In Eastern Germany, firms are not sensitive to external constraints, possibly due to high public R …&D subsidies. The results suggest that R&D in Eastern Germany is to a large extent driven by public subsidies since the German re …

This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider … the firm level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research …