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

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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 targeted public subsidies trigger R&D spending, especially so in internationally collaborating SMEs. We further evaluate the different impact of privately financed and publicly-induced R&D investment on innovation performance. The results confirm that the publicly-induced R&D is productive as it translates into marketable product innovations. While both types of R&D investments trigger significant output effects, the effect of policyinduced R&D investment on sales from market novelties is highest for international collaborators as well as for SMEs.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86304-120-5
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 121

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Technological Change: Government Policy
• Subject: Public Innovation Policy ; Subsidies ; R&D ; SMEs ; International Collaboration ; Treatment Effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hottenrott, Hanna ; Lopes-Bento, Cindy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
• (where): Düsseldorf
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/88449
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET