Joint R&D subsidies, related variety, and regional innovation

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Subsidies for R and D are an important tool of public R and D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. The paper adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R and D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations' monetary resources invested into R and D. It is argued that collaboration induced by subsidized joint R and D projects yield significant effects that are missed in traditional analyses. An empirical study on the level of German labor market regions substantiates this claim showing that collaborative R and D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers on Innovation and Space ; No. 01.15

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: collaborative R and D projects ; related variety ; regional innovation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Broekel, Tom ; Brachert, Matthias ; Duschl, Matthias ; Brenner, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/111906
• Last update: 07.03.2025, 11:53 AM CET