What drives innovation output from subsidized R&D cooperation? - Project-level evidence from Germany

Technovation

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 358-369

  Schwartz, Michael ^a   Peglow, Francois ^b   Fritsch, Michael ^a,c   Günther, Jutta ^a  

^a HALLE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innovation output; Project organization; R D cooperation; R D policy

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; D-POLICY; DATA SETS; GERMANY; PATENT APPLICATIONS; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; PROJECT ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL PROXIMITY;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PUBLISHING;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84861098135     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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