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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D funding on R&D expenditure and patenting behavior of German firms. The main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent applications. We distinguish the productivity of purely...
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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 …
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In recent times the service sector is often called the driving force of today?s economies. This paper analyses the innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects engage more in innovative activities than others....
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298007
This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a complementary or a substitutive relationship between public funding and private investment. We...
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This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a cross-country comparative level. Using harmonised micro data from five different countries, this study analyzes the heterogeneity of the use of policy instruments. Applying a...
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