Detecting behavioural additionality : an empirical study on the impact of public R&D funding on firms' cooperative behaviour in Germany
Birgit Aschhoff, Andreas Fier and Heide Löhlein
Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific institutions and industry is considered as most promising. In the context of policy evaluation we analyse if public R&D funding is suitable for influencing firms’ collaborative behaviour in the intended way and where applicable, if a lasting change results. The empirical analysis is based on German CIS data and a supplemental telephone survey. Using a nearest-neighbour matching approach we find that R&D funding is indeed a particularly valuable tool for the linking of science into industry R&D partnerships. However, we also show in a bivariate probit analysis that newly initiated R&D co-operations with science are less likely to be continued after funding has ended compared to already existing co-operations. Therefore, the behavioural change induced by public funding is not necessarily longlived.
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2006
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Other Persons: | Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor) ; Fier, Andreas (contributor) ; Löhlein, Heide (contributor) |
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Mannheim : ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung |
Subject: | Forschungsfinanzierung | Research funding | Forschungskooperation | Research collaboration | Unternehmensnetzwerk | Business network | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Schätzung | Estimation | Deutschland | Germany | Forschung und Entwicklung | Finanzierung |
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Extent: | Online-Ressource, 31 S., Text |
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Series: | ZEW discussion papers. - Mannheim : ZEW, ZDB-ID 2125128-9. - Vol. 06-37 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat reader |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337981