Iranian Association for Management of Technology Journal of Science and Technology Policy 20080840 11 1 2018 03 21 Effect of Government Financial Supports on R&D Collaboration Effect of Government Financial Supports on R&D Collaboration 17 29 12999 10.22034/jstp.2018.10.1.539420 FA Javad Soltanzadeh Ph.D. Candidate of Technology Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Sadegh Khayatian Yazdi Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Esmaeil Ghaderifar Ph.D. Candidate of Technology Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba Hojjat Rezaei Soufi Ph.D. Candidate of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 1970 01 01 Competitive Business Environment has led companies to constantly prosper for generation of new ideas RD Collaboration is one of the mechanism that firms apply to promote innovation processes in their products and services RD Collaboration is trackable in vertical and horizontal modes in literature Some countries experiences in this matter shows that government support has had a special role in such cooperation mechanisms To investigate this hypothesis in this research we have gathered data from knowledge based companies in Iran which of them were receiving government support Data of collaboration types is from and and the hypothesis was to check for government support effect significance in on firms cooperation level After validity and reliability of data were tested and confirmed the Propensity Score Matching PSM methodology was used to investigate model hypothesesResult indicates that government support in the form of RD subsidies has significant effect on both vertical and horizontal collaboration modes However analysis of collaboration type under each mode shows that the most significant effect has been on scientificacademic collaboration and then internal cooperation advisory collaboration collaboration with suppliers have been more affected respectively Competitive Business Environment has led companies to constantly prosper for generation of new ideas RD Collaboration is one of the mechanism that firms apply to promote innovation processes in their products and services RD Collaboration is trackable in vertical and horizontal modes in literature Some countries experiences in this matter shows that government support has had a special role in such cooperation mechanisms To investigate this hypothesis in this research we have gathered data from knowledge based companies in Iran which of them were receiving government support Data of collaboration types is from and and the hypothesis was to check for government support effect significance in on firms cooperation level After validity and reliability of data were tested and confirmed the Propensity Score Matching PSM methodology was used to investigate model hypothesesResult indicates that government support in the form of RD subsidies has significant effect on both vertical and horizontal collaboration modes However analysis of collaboration type under each mode shows that the most significant effect has been on scientificacademic collaboration and then internal cooperation advisory collaboration collaboration with suppliers have been more affected respectively https://jstp.nrisp.ac.ir/article_12999_1eca68b617a305e6927aecd8a865ecbb.pdf