Based on an original and recent sample representative of the largest R&D corporations in the EU, this paper aims at investigating in a quantitative way the main factors explaining: (i) the decision of firms to increase their R&D investment effort in the near future; (ii) the main drivers explaining the favourite location choice for R&D; and (iii) the impact of direct and indirect policies to support R&D activities in the EU. The main findings suggest that competitive pressures from the US are the main determinants for increasing R&D investments. Public support to R&D and proximity to other activities of the company influence the decision to locate R&D in the home country. Considerations on the cost of employing researchers become one factor among others only for firms preferring a location outside their home country, in particular in the rest of the world (countries other than the EU or the US).
TUEBKE Alexander;
CINCERA Michele;
COZZA Claudio;
BRANDSMA Andries;
MONCADA PATERNO' CASTELLO Pietro;
CINCERA Michele;
2010-07-08
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC54820
978-92-79-15717-2,
1018-5593,
1831-872X,
EUR 24325 EN/2,
OP LF-NB-24-325-EN-C,
http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/papers.htm,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC54820,
10.2791/4113,
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