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A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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Over the course of the past twenty years, venture capital has fuelled an entrepreneurial revolution - first in the United States and now in Europe's common market -, which has opened new opportunities for technological innovation, capital investment and employment growth. Some of the most...
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This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the 1997-1999 period the Federal and Provincial R&D tax credit programs were used by more than one third of all manufacturing firms and by close to two thirds of firms in...
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This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a complementary or a substitutive relationship between public funding and private investment. We...
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Applying a variant of a non-parametric matching estimator, we consider European funding and national funding as heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and performance. In terms of input, getting funding from both...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden ausgewählte Probleme, die im Zusammenhang mit der Subventionierung von erneuerbarer Energien stehen, in finanztheoretischen und industrieökonomischen Modellen formal analysiert. Der erste Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Subventionierung von...
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The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of “innovators,” i.e., workers who are specialized in R&D&I, is very high. The average subsidy per employee is typically the highest among young firms. At the firm level, an increase...
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This paper provides evidence that capital market imperfections hold back innovation and growth, and that public policy can complement capital markets. We deliver the evidence by studying the effects of government funding on the behavior of SMEs in Finland. By adapting the methodology recently...
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Wachtumsdynamik ausgleichen muß. Der Bericht schlägt dazu eine Verzinsungs-Subvention vor, die die Wirtschaft in den neuen … Bundesländern ankurbeln soll. Es wird beabsichtigt, die restriktive Lohnpolitik mit sukzessiver Verzinsungs-Subvention zu koppeln … und aufgrund entsprechender Fakten zu bemessen. Eine jeweilige Subvention wird nur gezahlt, sofern der beantragende …
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Der Bericht befaßt sich mit der Frage, ob in einer Informationsgesellschaft Arbeitsplätze vernichtet oder gewonnen werden. Ausgehend von Basisinnovationen, die der Schlüssel zur Beseitigung der Arbeitslosigkeit sind, werden Strukturwandlungen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft hervorgerufen. Die...
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