Cindy Lopes Bento studied commercial and economic sciences at ICHEC-UCL in Brussels and holds a DEA in rural economics of the university of Louvain-la-Neuve. From 2006 to 2008, she worked as an economic attaché at the delegation of the European Commission in Botswana, before joining the statistical office of Luxembourg in 2009. In 2010 she joined CEPS/INSTEAD and is a member of the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at K.U.Leuven in Belgium where she follows the Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Business and Economics. Since October 2010 she is affiliated to the ZEW as a member of the ZEW DocNet.
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Czarnitzki, Dirk and Cindy Lopes Bento (2013), Value for Money? New microeconometric evidence on public R&D grants in Flanders, Research Policy 42, 76-89.
Czarnitzki, Dirk and Cindy Lopes Bento (2012), Evaluation of Public R&D Policies: A Cross-Country Comparison, World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 9 (2/3/4), 254-282.
Hottenrott, Hanna and Cindy Lopes Bento (2012), (International) R&D Collaboration and SMEs: The Effectiveness of Targeted Public R&D Support Schemes, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-086, Mannheim. Download
Hottenrott, Hanna and Cindy Lopes Bento (2012), Quantity or Quality? Collaboration Strategies in Research and Development and Incentives to Patent, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-047, Mannheim. Download
Czarnitzki, Dirk and Cindy Lopes Bento (2012), Value for Money? New Microeconometric Evidence on Public R&D Grants in Flanders, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-034, Mannheim. Download
Czarnitzki, Dirk and Cindy Lopes Bento (2011), Innovation Subsidies: Does the Funding Source Matter for Innovation Intensity and Performance? Empirical Evidence from Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-053, Mannheim. Download
Czarnitzki, Dirk and Cindy Lopes Bento (2010), Evaluation of Public R&D Policies: A Cross-country Comparison, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-073, Mannheim. Download
Czarnitzki, Dirk, Cindy Lopes Bento and Thorsten Doherr (2011), Counterfactual Impact Evaluation of Cohesion Policy. Examples from Support to Innovation and Research, Final Report, European Commission, DG Regional Policy, Leuven. Download