The Relationship between R&D Collaboration, Subsidies and Patenting Activity: Empirical Evidence from Finland and Germany

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This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze R&D and patent activity at the firm level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research do not exhibit a significant impact neither on R&D nor patenting, but the innovative performance could be improved by additional incentives for collaboration. For Finnish companies, public funding is an important source of finance for R&D. Without subsidies, recipients would show less R&D and patenting activity, whilst those firms not receiving subsidies would perform significantly better if they were publicly funded.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 04-37 [rev.]

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Technological Change: Government Policy
• Subject: R&D ; Public Subsidies ; Collaboration ; Policy Evaluation ; Forschungskooperation ; Forschungssubvention ; Innovationspolitik ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Patent ; Deutschland ; Finnland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fier, Andreas ; Ebersberger, Bernd ; Czarnitzki, Dirk
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24692
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET