market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of … present the institutional framework as well as the development of electricity markets in the European Union, Chile and Brazil … electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …

This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the … on a series of innovation indicators such as number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation … additional innovation output. …

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

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 …

Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national … levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of … combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for innovation into the broader framework of public policies to stimulate …

This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical … their innovation effort when participating in public policy schemes. Cross-sectional data at the firm level are used to …