Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

By Paul A. David, Bronwyn H Hall, Andrew A. Toole. 2000

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National innovation system, social entrepreneurship, and rural economic growth in China (2017, background): “The systematic approach to government policies and entrepreneurial activity has subsequently received sustained research interest (David et al., 2000; Furman and Hayes, 2004; Furman et al., 2002; Hu and Mathews, 2005, 2008; Lee and Park, 2006), which has led to several related concepts such as…”
Measuring the effects of public support schemes on firms’ innovation activities: Survey evidence from Austria (2007, background): “4 David et al. (2000) survey the econometric contributions to input additionality, Streicher et al. (2004) provide evidence for Austria and García-Quevedo (2004) conducted a meta-analysis on this issue.”
The interaction between public and private R&D expenditure and national productivity (2011, background): “David et al. (2000) survey the economic literature on this topic at firm, sector and aggregate level, with varying results: Main findings [by Levy and Terleckyi] are: (1) government contract R&D is positively and significantly associated with private R&D investment and productivity; and (2) ‘other’…”
Productivity Effects of Basic Research in Low-Tech and High-Tech Industries (2012, background): “Its research outputs are considered as key inputs for further investments in the R&D process which lead to additional research findings and in the optimal case to technological innovations, i.e. new products or processes (David et al., 2000).”
Do Public Subsidies Complement Business R&D? A Meta‐Analysis of the Econometric Evidence (2004, methodology): “This would facilitate the availability of more information and the use, together with the econometric approaches 11 examined in this meta-analysis, of alternative research methods such as quasiexperimental methods (David et al., 2000).”
The Financing of R&D and Innovation (2009, neutral): “14 Also see Spivack (2001) for further studies of such programs, including European studies, and David, Hall, and Toole (2000) and Klette, Moen, and Griliches Klette (2000) for surveys of the evaluation of government R&D programs in general.”
The effectiveness of subsidies revisited: Accounting for wage and employment effects in business R&D (2008, background): “David et al. (2000) and Klette et al. (2000) provide surveys.”
The determinants of regional specialisation in business services: agglomeration economies, vertical linkages and innovation (2015, background): “Although the evidence supporting the presence of positive spillovers of publicly funded R&D on private R&D investments is larger, in some cases a displacing effect has also been found (see David et al., 2000).”
Building Programme Evaluation into the Design of Public Research‐Support Programmes (2002, background): “21 David, Hall and Toole (2000) survey the econometric evidence on this issue.”