Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation – so that they spend … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train …

Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an … improve the effectiveness of government support for innovation …

Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …

counties connected via trade and local taxes, whereas we do not find spillovers on counties in the same local labor market. We …% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important spillovers for untreated sectors in treated counties, untreated …

trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … – combining trade benefits and FDI/innovation related real income gains plus transatlantic macroeconomic interdependency effects a …The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …