Abstract:

This paper analyses the impact of R&D public funding on the technological cooperation between manufacturing firms in the period from 1998 to 2005. Special attention is paid to the different levels of government-promoted innovation policies, and how these differences in governmental decisions affect cooperation activities with different partners, universities or technological centres, customers and suppliers.

Matching estimators are used to address endogeneity problems, and the results show that regional subsidies are especially effective in fostering cooperation with universities and technology centres in those firms not currently engaged in R&D cooperation. On the other hand, the results show that subsidies at a national level have a higher impact by stimulating cooperation with universities and technology centres of those firms already engaged in R&D cooperation.

Reference:

Afcha, S.M. (2011): Behavioral additionality in the context of regional innovation policy in Spain, Innovation-Management Policy & Practice, 13(1), pp. 95-110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5172/impp.2011.13.1.95