horizon (3 years). The employment effects of this policy are estimated using a synthetic control approach on Labour Force … past the 15th percentile, but not all remained employed. Employment losses were found mostly among younger workers, at … magnitudes similar to previous elasticities. Newer to the literature, regional employment losses were found mostly outside of …

collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. -- Innovation Policy ; Subsidies ; R&D ; SMEs ; International Collaboration … privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … ; Treatment Effects ; Innovation Performance …

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

electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that … played important roles as innovation sources or innovation partners for the HK electronics SMEs. Rather, the main way through … which universities and R&D centres support the HK electronics SMEs' innovation activities seems to be the provision of a …