Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211492 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
LEAF Working Paper Series No. 19-05
Publisher: 
University of Lincoln, Lincoln International Business School, Lincoln Economics and Finance Research Group (LEAF), Lincoln
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of national and international R&D support programmes on firms' technology scouting, defined as firms' use of external knowledge sources. Drawing on a unique dataset on R&D support programmes for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in both manufacturing and service sectors across 28 European countries, this study reports treatment effects estimated by the copula-based endogenous switching model, which takes into account unobserved firm heterogeneity. Empirical results indicate that R&D support programmes have heterogenous effects on technology scouting, whereby a crowding out effect arises in the case of a short-run scouting, while additional effect are mostly reported for strategic external knowledge sourcing. Moreover, our results suggest that unfavourable, crowding out, effects could be reduced, if not eliminated, by a random distribution of public funding.
Subjects: 
Technology scouting
External knowledge search
European SMEs
copula-based endogenous switching model
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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