Economic crisis and company R&D in Spain: do regional and policy factors matter?
利用西班牙企业面板数据，研究了2008年经济危机期间企业放弃内部研发的概率，发现区域经济规模和区域创新系统类型显著影响，且区域政府研发支持仅在知识利用体系强的地区有效。
The economic crisis which began in 2008 has had a far-reaching impact, including effects on the innovation behaviour of firms. Many companies have reduced their innovation-related activities, although some firms have been more resilient than others. Using a representative microdata panel of Spanish firms, we study the probability of companies abandoning in-house R&D during the crisis and its relationship to regional and policy factors. We find significant regional heterogeneity related to regional economic size and the type of the regional innovation system; regional government R&D support only reduces R&D abandonment rates in regions where a strong system of knowledge exploitation is in place.