Additionality of public R&D funding for business R&D - a dynamic panel data analysis Online publication date: Thu, 18-Sep-2014
by Carter Bloch; Ebbe Krogh Graversen
World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD), Vol. 9, No. 2/3/4, 2012
Abstract: An important issue in R&D policy is whether publicly funded R&D is a substitute or a complement to privately funded R&D. However, measuring the impact of R&D policies has proven a difficult task, complicated by simultaneity and selection bias. We utilise a dynamic panel data approach to examine the effect of public funding that takes account of both these potential biases, using R&D data for Danish firms from 1995 to 2005. We find robust evidence of significant complementary effects, with a 1% increase in public funding yielding around a 0.12% increase in privately funded R&D. For predicted values of public funding for both R&D active firms that have and have not received public funding, estimates are slightly lower, at around 0.09%.
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