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 …

than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups' employment growth and their patent …%. Furthermore, subsidized start-ups show a 2.8 times higher patent output. These estimates provide evidence for the additionality of …-offs which excels in the novelty of business ideas and patent activity. For some of these high-tech start-ups, no non …

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 …

level of R&D intensity and a higher probability for patent application compared to non-subsidized firms for our sample year …. The probability for patent applications rises by 21 percentage points. These results closely match earlier empirical … results for East Germany. Given the fact that the East German innovation system is particularly driven by small and medium …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public …