This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of existing knowledge, the results suggest that the positive effect on … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …