The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top...

We analyse R&D tax incentives in a detailed way considering a multi-period setting and economic assumptions which reflect a realistic economic environment. We measure the incentive's impact on the firm's total tax payments and the R&D cost by means of the simulation model European Tax Analyzer....

In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non-parametric matching estimator and the conditional...

Die Position Sachsens als Innovationsstandort wird anhand der Ausstattung des Freistaatsmit Ressourcen für Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Innovationsaktivitäten analysiert. Im innerdeutschen Vergleich rangiert Sachsen bei den Inputfaktoren für den Innovationsprozeß im Mittelfeld, steht aber...

In this paper we empirically test whether public Ramp;D subsidies crowd out private Ramp;D investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non-parametric matching estimator and the...