Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Hanna L. Binz and Dirk Czarnitzki
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hanna Hottenrott

No 08-005, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: We analyze financial constraints for R&D, where we account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments should be distinguished by their degree of uncertainty, e.g. routine R&D versus cutting-edge R&D. Financial constraints should be more binding for cutting-edge R&D than for routine R&D. Using panel data we find that R&D spending of firms devoting a significant fraction of R&D to cutting-edge projects is curtailed by credit constraints while routine R&D investments are not. This has important policy implications with respect to the distribution of R&D subsidies in the economy.

Keywords: R&D; Financial Constraints; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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