Ebersberger, Bernd; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2004
collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze patent activity at the firm … level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research do not … collaboration. For Finnish companies, public funding is an important source of finance for R&D. Without subsidies, recipients would …