Increasing the R&D to GDP ratio to 3.5% - Policy Instruments and Likely Impacts on Macroeconomic Indicators
Increasing the R&D to GDP ratio to 3.5% - Policy Instruments and Likely Impacts on Macroeconomic Indicators
Period:
01.07.2016 – 31.05.2017
This research project analyses ways and implications of increasing the R&D to GDP ratio in Germany to 3.5% by 2025. Using microeconomic, sector-level and macroeconomic approaches, the research focuses on
- Current and possible future policy instruments for promoting R&D expenditure
- Potential for increasing R&D expenditure of SMEs
- Structural analysis of R&D expenditure in the manufacturing sector
- Intersector and intrasector changes in der R&D expenditure
- Cash-flow elasticity of R&D expenditure
- Additionality of R&D subsidies
- Macroeconomic impacts of increasing R&D expenditure