Research and development (R&D) tax credits are widely employed among the OECD countries to promote business sector investments in innovation. The implementation of R&D tax credit schemes, however, varies across countries. The empirical research on the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives suggests...

In this article, we consider technology leaders (which are innovators) and technology followers (which are non-innovators) to provide a new theoretical explanation for the well-cited empirical evidence of an inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a...

Die internen FuE-Aufwendungen sind in Deutschland im Jahr 2019, also dem letzten Jahr vor der Pandemie um 5.1 Prozent auf knapp über 110 Mrd. Euro gestiegen. Den stärksten Anstieg hatte mit gut 6 Prozent der Staatssektor, den Schwächsten mit 4,8 Prozent der Hochschulsektor zu verzeichnen. Im...

We implement an experimental design based on a duopoly game in which subjects choose whether to cooperate in Research and Development (R&D) activities. We first conduct six experimental markets that differ in both the levels of knowledge spillovers and the intensity of competition. Consistently...