Do R&D Subsidies Support Innovation or Imitation? Evidence from Four EU Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Do R&D Subsidies Support Innovation or Imitation? Evidence from Four EU Countries

Original language description

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effects of public R&amp;D subsidies on the innovative activities of private firms in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Portugal. We investigate whether public R&amp;D subsidies make firms’ activities more innovative. We measure these effects using firm-level data from the 2010 and 2012 Community Innovation Survey and estimated the effects by propensity score matching. We find that the subsidies do not fully crowd out private sources of R&amp;D expenditure in any of these countries. However, there is a substantial heterogeneity in the impact of the subsidies on firms’ innovativeness. R&amp;D subsidies do support true innovations in the Czech Republic and Germany, but they enhance only imitations in Bulgaria and Portugal.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ekonomický časopis

ISSN

0013-3035

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

909-924

UT code for WoS article

000451240500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055511957