Research subsidies, industry–university cooperation and innovation

By Florian W Szücs. Research Policy, 2018

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We evaluate the impact of the EC's Seventh Framework Programme, a large-scale research subsidy programme, on the innovation activities of subsidized firms, with a particular regard to industry–university partnerships. Using matching and difference-in-difference estimation, we find a positive effect on a range of innovation indicators. The number of project participants in general and university participants in particular positively affect performance, suggesting knowledge spillovers between project members. Research centres, on the other hand, do not exert positive externalities. We also find that the benefits of collaborating with universities are amplified by their academic quality.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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• Universities and open innovation: the determinants of network centrality (2019, background): “2018; Liang and Liu 2018; Szücs 2018), in particular the network structures pertaining to knowledge flows and patterns of innovation (Glückler 2007; Huber 2012a, b; Sebestyén and Varga 2013; Bogers et  al.”