In this report, we analyze the Finnish R&D tax incentive scheme of the years 2013 and 2014. Under the scheme, firms were eligible for double corporate tax deduction incentive on labor expenses incurred for undertaking R&D activities. Our report consists of a literature review, an empirical...

An important prerequisite for the renewal of Finland’s industrial and economic base is the ability of the universities to promote the renewal of the knowledge base. The UNI project studied ways in which changes in external funding mechanisms and recent governance changes in Finnish...

Die Bundesregierung hat sich immer wieder dazu bekannt, eine steuerliche Förderung von Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Unternehmen in Deutschland einzuführen. Ende Februar 2019 hat das Bundesfinanzministerium erstmals konkrete Vorschläge veröffentlicht. Das ZEW-Leibniz-Zentrum für...

In Deutschland informieren zwei Statistiken über die Entwicklung und die Struktur von staatlichen Fördermitteln für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in der Wirtschaft: die FuE-Statistik des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft sowie die Statistik des Bundesministeriums für Bildung...

The German government has committed to reducing the primary energy demand of buildings by 80% by 2050 and to attaining a thermal retrofit rate of 2%. Achieving both goals will require deep thermal retrofits across the existing building stock. To meet this challenge, the government is exploring...

The building sector is a key focus area of the Energy Concept of the German Federal Government, among other reasons because it has the potential to avoid a large share of CO2 emissions while also saving costs. Thus far, however, only a small percentage of residential building owners have...

Die Bundesregierung hat mit der Rentenreform 2001 die staatliche Förderung der freiwilligen zusätzlichen kapitalgedeckten Altersvorsorge eingeführt. Dabei werden über die Riester-Rente zertifizierte private Altersvorsorgeprodukte durch Zulagen und Steuerersparnisse gefördert. Dadurch sollen...

Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The stated motive of the reform was to boost...

Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The stated motive of the reform was to boost...