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| Title: | | Detecting Behavioural Additionality: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms' Cooperative Behaviour in Germany  |
| Authors: | | Fier, Andreas Aschhoff, Birgit Löhlein, Heide |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 06-037 [rev.] |
| Abstract: | | Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific institutions and industry is considered as most promising. In the context of policy evaluation we analyse if public R&D funding is suitable for influencing firms' collaborative behaviour in the intended way and where applicable, if a lasting change results. The empirical analysis is based on German CIS data and a supplemental telephone survey. Using a nearest-neighbour matching approach we find that R&D funding is indeed a particularly valuable tool for linking science into industry R&D partnerships. However, we also show in a bivariate probit analysis that newly initiated R&D co-operations with science are less likely to be continued after funding has ended compared to already existing cooperations. Therefore, the behavioural change induced by public funding is not necessarily long-lived. |
| Subjects: | | Public Funding Firm Behaviour Policy Evaluation R&D Co-operation |
| JEL: | | H25 L24 O38 |
| older Version: | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24229 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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