spillovers of pre-competitive publicly funded Industrial Collective Research (ICR) in Germany. The ICR aims to compensate for … obstacles faced by SME in carrying out research and development (R&D). Using data from 911 firms surveyed in 2006, the results …-participants are engaged in other publicly funded or non-publicly funded collaborative research projects with research institutes …

no more successful than non-university spin-offs; (vii) universities constitute important collaboration partners and … (viii) clusters enhance collaboration, patents and productivity. Key problems for economic policy advice are that the …

no more successful than non-university spin-offs; (vii) universities constitute important collaboration partners and … (viii) clusters enhance collaboration, patents and productivity. Key problems for economic policy advice are that the …

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth … further extend the existing empirical literature on the role of publicly funded research for economic development by … differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non …

collaboration leads, on average, to higher R&D in the involved firms. Thus there is no full crowding-out of subsidies targeted to …