Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24229 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 06-037
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
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 the linking of 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 co-operations. Therefore, the behavioural change induced by public funding is not necessarily longlived.
Subjects: 
Public Funding
Firm Behaviour
Policy Evaluation
R&D Co-operation
JEL: 
O32
O38
H32
L22
C20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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