SME Performance and Public Support for International RJVsFootnote^*

* We thank the editor, Professor Massimo Colombo, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We are also grateful to the audiences at the CONCORD 2011 (Sevilla), the SAEe 2011 (Vigo), the Eu‐SPRI conference 2012 (Karlsruhe) and the Department of Applied Economics II (Universitat de Valéncia). This study has been financially supported by projects ECO2010‐19847 and ECO2014‐52051‐R.

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