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innovations. Small-sized firms experience stronger productivity effects. Productivity gains grow with scale among SMEs, but large …
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This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
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Many international organisations emphasize the need of public grant schemes evaluations. An evaluation provides the opportunity to assess the socio-economic impact achieved by the grant and allows for a refinement of such policy instruments in order to make public funding more effective in...
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This study investigates the allocation of China’s R&D subsidies and its effectiveness in stimulating firms’ own R&D investments for the population of Chinese listed firms throughout the time period 2001 to 2006. For allocation, we find that firm participation is determined by prior grants,...
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This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...
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German firms. Using propensity score matching, our empirical results indicate that subsidized firms indeed show a higher …&D activity of SMEs, where the highest increase in terms of R&D intensity is estimated for micro businesses with up to 10 … employees. -- Propensity score matching ; R&D subsidies ; East Germany ; SME …
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Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries to move one step further, combining the two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a...
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Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing...
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incentives. Our samples evidence that the estimations linked to incremental bases and related to targeted rules towards SMEs …
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This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm …
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