main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … schemes. For this, a treatment effects analysis is conducted in a first step. The results are implemented into the estimation … of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a …

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public … that collaborating firms are more likely to patent than others. Within the group of collaborating firms, participants in …

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 …