Joint R&D Subsidies, Related Variety, and Regional Innovation

Tom Broekel, Matthias Brachert (), Matthias Duschl and Thomas Brenner ()

International Regional Science Review, 2017, vol. 40, issue 3, 297-326

Abstract: Subsidies for research and development (R&D) are an important tool of public R&D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. This article adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R&D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations’ monetary resources invested into R&D. It is argued that collaboration induced by subsidized joint R&D projects yield significant effects that are missed in traditional analyses. An empirical study on the level of German labor market regions substantiates this claim, showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions’ innovation growth when providing access to related variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks.

Keywords: collaborative R&D projects; related variety; regional innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0160017615589007

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