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 …

recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For …

In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das …-und Technologiepolitik aufgebaut ist und zum anderen, wie es gelingen soll, die wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen für … Förderinstrumentariums zu dem Schluss, dass insbesondere die Wirkungsforschung in Deutschland noch unterentwickelt ist und vor neuen …

biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy was driven blind by the idea to catch up with world’s biotech leaders … and analyse if Germany’s R&D policy lost its origins. We do examine, if Germany sacrifice economic funding principles, in …

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 …

In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the … government, the estimated average social rate of return is 34% for Germany in the period 1994 to 2011. Thereby effects on firm … decision in Germany remained remarkably stable over time, and that application costs as well as the marginal profitability of …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …