Spillover-effekter af danske virksomheders energiforskning og øvrige forskning

Thomas Bjørner and Janne Mackenhauer
Additional contact information
Janne Mackenhauer: De Økonomiske Råds Sekretariat

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, 2011, vol. 2011, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: In recent years there has been a drastic increase in public research subsidies earmarked for private energy research in Denmark. The purpose of this article is to investigate whether relatively high subsidies to private energy research can be justified by higher external spillover effects from private energy research compared to other private research. Estimation of spillover effects are carried out using an unbalanced panel of more than a thousand Danish private companies observed over the period 1999 to 2007. Our results suggest that the external rate of return due to external knowledge spillovers account for approximately a seventh of overall social return of private research. We reject that there are higher spillover from private energy research as compared to other types of private research. Instead the results suggest that external spil lover effects of energy research may be lower than for other types of private research. This implies that subsidies earmarked for private energy research should not be an element in a first best policy to reduce CO2-emission.

Keywords: miljø (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.xn--nt-lka.dk/files/2011/2011.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:jdaecn:0051

Access Statistics for this article

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift is currently edited by Jan Rose Skaksen

More articles in Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift from Nationaløkonomisk Forening Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lasse Wolsgård ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).