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participate in EU funded
R&D consortia
Information asymmetry:
A priori assessment of partners know-how
Uncertainty of R&D output
Contracts difficult to enforce
Internal adoption of external know-how
‘not invented here’ syndrom
Opportunism: exposing valuable know-how
without return
Keep know-how proprietary
Some insights from wide
body of IO theory on R&D
cooperation
See reviews (o.a. De Bondt (1997),
For Flemish and German firms that collaborate with science, Czarnitzki
(2009) finds that those firms receiving a subsidy for that collaboration
have on average higher R&D as compared to firms in non-sponsored
university collaboration;
The 7th FP (2007-2013)
Total amount: EUR 50521 million
Distributed to
Cooperation (FP, JTI) 64%
Ideas (ERC) 15%
People (Marie Curie) 9%
Capacities (Research infrastructures, SMEs, Regions of
Knowledge, Research Potential, Science in society,
International Cooperation) 8%
JRC 3%
13
EU Framework Program R&D
collaboration
Specific features of EU collaborative FP projects
The current FP7 program has made efforts to simplify and reduce the
administrative burden, be more oriented towards innovations-
applications, and a better perception of changing business
environment, with more emphasis on public private partnerships
and new instruments, such as the Joint Technology Initiative.