Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111906 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 01.15
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
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.
Subjects: 
collaborative R and D projects
related variety
regional innovation
JEL: 
L14
O31
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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