Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin - 2004
This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D funding on R&D expenditure and patenting behavior of German firms. The … main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … applications. We distinguish the productivity of purely privately financed R&D and additional R&D induced by public incentive …