Evaluating the Effect of Public Subsidies on firm R&D activity: an Application to Italy Using the Community Innovation Survey
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Keywords
Business R&D; Public Incentives; Econometric Evaluation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- C52 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INO-2009-02-22 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2009-02-22 (Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-PPM-2009-02-22 (Project, Program & Portfolio Management)
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