The paper investigates the relationship between government interventions to promote investments in innovation and firms …

The paper contains and impact evaluation of matching grants to promote investments in innovation on firm financed R …

partially crowded-out private investments in innovation and they more effectively promoted technological upgrades and process …, although FONTEC increased the overall R&D budget of the firms, it did not stimulate additional private investment in innovation … activities. In terms of behavioral additionality, FONTEC effectively promoted process innovation and induced changes in the …

Panama. All the evaluations were done at the recipient (firm) level using data from innovation surveys, industrial surveys … innovation activities. However, the analysis does not find much statistically significant impact on patents or new product sales …

university-enterprise project for technological innovation. The results indicate that the FNDCT has positive impacts on private R …

, spend more on innovation activities such as research and development and purchase of technology. Increments in innovation … beneficiary firms are caused to privately finance part of the increment on innovation expenditures. This would support the … innovation activities are efficient in the sense that subsidized firm actually accomplish more innovations. Long run effects on …