Another cluster premium: Innovation subsidies and R&D collaboration networks

Highlights: Paper empirically confirms firms in clusters to be subject to another cluster premium. Shows that firms in technology clusters are more likely to receive support from the 6th EU-Framework Programmes but not from national subsidization schemes. Finds firms in clusters to be less intensively embedded into nationally subsidized networks of R&D collaboration whereby they nevertheless hold more central positions. Finds firms in clusters to frequently utilize national subsidization programs for collaboration with public research organizations (not universities)