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

Arbeitspapier

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 schemes. For this, a treatment effects analysis is conducted in a first step. The results are implemented into the estimation of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a positive productivity.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 04-56

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Technological Change: Government Policy ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
• Thema: R&D ; Subsidies ; Patents ; Treatment Effects ; Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik ; Forschungssubvention ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Forschungsfinanzierung ; Patent ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Czarnitzki, Dirk ; Hussinger, Katrin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24065
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ