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| dc.contributor.author | | Ortega-Argilés, Raquel | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Brandsma, Andries | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2008-07-03 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-07-27T09:40:47Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-07-27T09:40:47Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2008 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25734 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top R&D investors are operating? Using data on the top-R&D investors from the 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, the size differential between R&D performers in the EU and US is more closely examined. A first observation is that, despite great differences between sectors, the overall distribution of companies' R&D investments in both economies is remarkably similar, as opposed to the distribution of the R&D/sales ratios of the same two sets of companies. The notion that size plays a role, independent of the sectoral composition of R&D, is then confirmed by regression analysis. In the US as well as in the EU, smaller sized Scoreboard companies tend to spend a larger proportion of their income from sales on R&D. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Universität Jena und Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik Jena | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Jena economic research papers 2008,049 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L11 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O30 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | R&D intensity | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | firm size | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | panel data | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Industrielle Forschung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Betriebsgröße | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Klein- und Mittelunternehmen | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Branche | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Betriebsgrößenstruktur | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Vergleich | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | EU-Staaten | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | USA | | en_US |
| dc.title | | EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms: do they explain the overall R&D intensity gap? | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 571272274 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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