plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and … grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently known about the effectiveness of these subsidy forms. <p> In this paper … we compare the effectiveness of eight forms of subsidy for R & D projects. The comparison is based on a survey of Swedish …

plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and … grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently known about the effectiveness of these subsidy forms. <p> In this paper … we compare the effectiveness of eight forms of subsidy for R & D projects. The comparison is based on a survey of Swedish …

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …