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Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Patent Outcome in Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2008

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public … that collaborating firms are more likely to patent than others. Within the group of collaborating firms, participants in …

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Systemic aspects of R&D policy : subsidies for R&D collaborations and their effects on private R&D

Engel, Dirk; Rothgang, Michael; Eckl, Verena - 2015

The paper analyses how context and time dependent factors determine the impulse of R&D subsidies on firm behavior with respect to private R&D expenditures. Based on data from the German R&D survey, we combine propensity-score matching with a difference-in-difference-estimator in order to measure...

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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2015

Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...

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The Link between R&D Subsidies, R&D Spending and Technological Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin - 2015

main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a …

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(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs : the effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2013

This study analyses the impact and effectiveness of targeted public support for R&D investment at the firm level. We test whether the policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in SMEs achieves input as well as output additionality. Our results show that the...

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Using Innovation Survey Data to Evaluate R&D Policy : The Case of Belgium

Aerts, Kris; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015

This study focuses on the impact of R&D policies in Flanders. We conduct a treatment effects analysis at the firm level to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R&D activity are considered as outcome variables in the...

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Benefiting from publicly funded pre-competitive research : differences between insiders and outsiders

Eckl, Verena; Engel, Dirk - 2009

spillovers of pre-competitive publicly funded Industrial Collective Research (ICR) in Germany. The ICR aims to compensate for …

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Benefiting from Publicly Funded Pre-Competitive Research - Differences Between Insiders and Outsiders

Eckl, Verena Christiane - 2009

spillovers of pre-competitive publicly funded Industrial Collective Research (ICR) in Germany. The ICR aims to compensate for …

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Evaluating the Impact of R&D Tax Credits on Innovation : A Microeconometric Study on Canadian Firms

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hanel, Petr; Rosa, Julio Miguel - 2018

This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the 1997-1999 period the Federal and Provincial R&D tax credit programs were used by more than one third of all manufacturing firms and by close to two thirds of firms in...

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Evaluating Innovation Policy : A Structural Treatment Effect Model of R&D Subsidies

Takalo, Tuomas - 2008

This paper studies the welfare effects of Ramp;D subsidies. We develop a model of continuous optimal treatment with outcome heterogeneity where the treatment outcome depends on applicant investment. The model takes into account heterogeneous application costs and identifies the treatment effect...

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