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

Tom Broekel (), Matthias Brachert (), Matthias Duschl and Thomas Brenner ()

No 2015-01, Working Papers on Innovation and Space from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: collaborative R and D projects; related variety; regional innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 O31 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2015-01-26
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