The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …

innovation performance (IP). In addition, existing studies examine the moderating effect of S&T employees management (STEM) on … the relationship between S&T employees input (STEI) and innovation performance (IP). We obtained 324 valid samples through …&T employees management (STEM) exerted a positively significant effect on innovation performance. However, the moderating effect of …

Insights from industrial organization, Schumpeterian innovation, and economic development theories are used to try to …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … however only holds for certain sources of public funding and certain types of innovation output. Innovation support from the …

Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi …