Public funding, strategies for innovation and I&D cooperation agreements

Abstract

From the "Survey of Technological Innovation 2000", we built a database of Spanish manufacturing enterprises that carry out innovation activities. We established a binominal logistic regression model that relates the enterprise size, the technological intensity, the funding which comes from the State and European autonomic agencies, the I & D and the external I & D, with the probability of establishing the I & D cooperation agreements. The tests showed us that all variables could, positively, influence on the probability of cooperating, although the variable median size company is not statistically significant. Similarly, it is evidenced that the Europeans and the State are the public agencies which exercise the greatest influence. The companies that use more than one agency simultaneously are more likely to establish cooperation agreements.