The impact of participation in R&D programs on R&D partnerships
研究了政府资助的研发项目如何影响西班牙制造企业建立研发合作伙伴关系的概率，发现公共支持对公私伙伴关系的促进作用大于企业间伙伴关系。
Research and innovation partnerships involving firms or firms and public research organizations (PROs) have been increasing over the last twenty years in OECD countries. In this paper we present empirical evidence about the impact of government sponsored R&D programs on firms’ partnership strategies related to R&D. Using a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms we estimate the effects of receiving public support on the probability that firms set up an R&D partnership with a PRO or a partnerhsip with other firms that are suppliers or customers. Controling for the endogeneity of participation in R&D support programs, we find that (i) the choice of private-private and of public-private partnerships is associated with different firm characteristics, and (ii) public support encourages directly or indirectly both types of cooperation, but the impact on public-private partnerships is larger. Results suggest that R&D cooperation is affected by market failures, and that public programs subsidizing industryscience links trigger a behavioral change in firms’ R&D strategic partnerships.