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

Andreas Fier, Bernd Ebersberger and Dirk Czarnitzki

No 04-37 [rev.], ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: R&D; Public Subsidies; Collaboration; Policy Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C25 H50 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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