Download or read book Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry written by Nick Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Government policies to support R & D are predicated on empirical evidence of R & D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R & D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general framework showing that technology and product market spillovers have testable implications for a range of performance indicators, and exploit these using distinct measures of a firm's position in technology space and product market space. We show using panel data on U.S. firms between 1981 and 2001 that both technology and product market spillovers operate, but that net social returns are several times larger than private returns. The spillover effects are also revealed when we analyze three high-tech sectors in detail - pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and telecommunication equipment. Using the model we evaluate three R & D subsidy policies and show that the typical focus of support for small and medium firms may be misplaced."