%0 Report %A Heijs, Joost %T Do public policies that foster co-operation in innovation augment the cooperative attitude: the empirical facts %J Documentos de trabajo del IAIF %D 2005 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56643 %X In this paper I offer a revision of the empirical literature on evaluation of policies fostering cooperation in innovation. Afterwads we analyse the case of the Spanish support on this topic. First I present a critical rewiew of the methods and findings of the existing empirical literature was made in an attempt to answer the question wether the policy of promotion of co-operation has been effective or not. Afterwards I analyse the impact of the public support for co-operative R&D in Spain. %~