Variables

1

2

3

4

5

6

Ln (Private R&D investment)

Ln (New product sales)

Ln (Number of patents)

Ln (Private R&D investment)

Ln (New product sales)

Ln (Number of patents)

Methods

OLS

OLS

OLS

Threshold regression

Threshold regression

Threshold regression

Ln (R&D subsidy)

1.674***

1.191*

0.087**

(0.791)

(0.852)

(0.051)

Ln (R&D subsidy) *T1

1.113**

2.581**

0.051**

(0.691)

(1.722)

(0.031)

Ln (R&D subsidy) *T2

4.012***

3.804**

0.094***

(1.571)

(1.995)

(0.187)

Ln (R&D subsidy) *T3

−0.937**

−1.118*

0.043**

(0.511)

(0.752)

(0.271)

Ln (Researchers)

0.082*

0.046*

0.041***

0.073***

0.52***

0.081***

(0.067)

(0.032)

(0.012)

(0.033)

(0.031)

(0.042)

Ln (workers)

0.027

0.021

0.044

0.021

0.024

0.046

(0.135)

(0.477)

(0.148)

(1.085)

(1.325)

(0.988)

Firm’s age

0.175**

0.021**

0.051**

0.125**

0.023**

0.053**

(0.085)

(0.012)

(0.032)

(0.067)

(0.014)

(0.031)

Shareholding structure

0.113

0.236**

0.321*

0.115*

0.241**

0.351**

(0.134)

(0.192)

(0.261)

(0.095)

(0.146)

(0.211)

_Cons

1.446**

0.226***

2.511**

2.514***

1.446***

1.606***

(0.871)

(0.031)

(1.473)

(1.098)

(0.341)

(0.122)

N

6715

6715

6715

6715

6715

6715

Adj. R2

0.056

0.063

0.071

0.103

0.116

0.121