Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44907 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Citation: 
[Journal:] EIB Papers [ISSN:] 0257-7755 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] European Investment Bank (EIB) [Place:] Luxembourg [Year:] 2009 [Pages:] 120-143
Publisher: 
European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This article analyzes the potential benefits of industryscience collaborations for samples of Flemish and German firms. A firm collaborating with science may benefit from knowledge spillovers and public subsidies as industry-science collaborations are often granted preferred treatment. I shed light on the potential spillover and subsidy effects by estimating treatment effect models using nearest neighbour matching techniques. For both countries, I find positive effects on business R&D. Firms that engage in industryscience collaborations invest more in R&D compared to the counterfactual situation where they would not collaborate with science. Furthermore, within the sample of firms collaborating with science, a subsidy for that collaboration leads, on average, to higher R&D in the involved firms. Thus there is no full crowding-out of subsidies targeted to science-industry collaborations.
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Article

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