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The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …-regional than intra-regional cooperation. The firms' propensity to extend cooperation across the region is assumed to increase with … investigate the effect of an increasing amount of support. All the hypotheses are not rejected. Firms' cooperation is policy …
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Prior research shows that technology spillovers across firms increase innovation, productivity, and value. We study how … firms finance their own growth stimulated by technology spillovers from their technological peer firms. We find that greater … technology spillovers lead to higher leverage. This is the result of technology spillovers increasing asset redeployability, as …
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Several reviews and impact assessment studies have concluded that the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) succeeded in fostering scientific excellence and attracting the “A Team” in public science. However, these studies typically fail to contrast their...
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Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....
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intellectual property rights, and co-operation between different SHOKs. The paper compares these dimensions across SHOKs and tries …
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The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...
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The main topic related to science in the previous year was the National Project (NP) “Science” and federal projects implemented under its framework. Considering the speed of budget funds allocation, NP “Science” was one of the most dynamic one among projects of similar status. The...
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The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057334
This paper analyzes the effects of mixed public-private Ramp;D incentives and empirically tests whether patents that were publicly sponsored are more quot;importantquot; than non-subsidized ones. Blending patents and public subsidies will allow the funding agency to subsidize inventions that...
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Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the...
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