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标题：The virtue of industry-science collaborations
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作者：Dirk Czarnitzki
期刊名称：EIB Papers
印刷版ISSN：0257-7755
出版年度：2009
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：European Investment Bank
摘要：This article analyzes the potential benefits of industry- science 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 industry- science 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.