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ISBN Number: 92-64-012584-7
Publication Date: 8 June 2006
Pages: 246
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How does government funding of business R&D affect the behaviour of firms?
Ongoing efforts to boost business investment in R&D demand better methods of evaluating the effectiveness of government policy instruments. Evaluations should investigate not only how much additional business R&D spending is stimulated by government support or how much additional output is generated as a result, but also how government funding influences the conduct and direction of business R&D.
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Do recipient firms pursue different types of R&D, or collaborate more with others? Do they improve their R&D management capabilities and introduce enduring changes in their R&D strategy and performance? Such issues are not typically addressed in traditional evaluations. Efforts to explicitly measure changes in the ways firms conduct R&D as a result of government policy – so-called “behavioural additionality” effects – have remained relatively underdeveloped.
This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality and summarises results of a multinational effort to develop better ways of measuring it. The analysis derives from a series of studies undertaken in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. These studies reveal a number of qualitative changes in the types of R&D conducted by firms and the way in which they carry out R&D as a result of their participation in government R&D funding programmes.
Table of contents
Foreword
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. Introduction and Synthesis
Chapter 2. Behavioural Additionality of Business R&D Grant Programmes in Australia
Chapter 3. Behavioural Additionality of Austria's Industrial Research Promotion Fund
Chapter 4. Behavioural Additionality in Austria's Kplus Competence Centre Programme
Chapter 5. Behavioural Additionality of the R&D subsidies Programme of IWT-Flanders (Belgium)
Chapter 6. Behavioural Additionality of Public R&D Funding in Finland
Chapter 7. Behavioural Additionality of Public R&D Funding in Germany
Chapter 8. Behavioural Additionality of Public R&D Funding in Japan
Chapter 9. Behavioural Additionality of Public R&D Funding in Korea
Chapter 10. Behavioural Additionality of Innovation Norway's Financial Support Programmes
Chapter 11. Behavioural Additionality of the UK SMART and LINK Schemes
Chapter 12. Behavioural Additionality of the US Advanced Technology Programme
Chapter 13. Behavioural Additionality of the EU's 5th Framework Programme
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