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Should Finland Introduce an R&D Tax Credit? Reflections Based on Norwegian R&D Tax Policy

Møen, Jarle - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Subsidies to commercial R&D can be given as R&D tax credits or through direct grants. Tax incentives have become an increasingly popular policy tool over the last decades. In this note I discuss the pros and cons of the two forms of subsidies in light of Norways experience with R&D policy. I...

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Estimating the local average treatment effect of R&D subsidies in a pan-European program

Hünermund, Paul; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2016

We investigate the effect of Europe's largest multilateral subsidy program for R&D-performing, small and medium-sized enterprises on firm growth. The program was organized under a specific budget allocation rule, referred to as Virtual Common Pot (VCP), which is designed to avoid...

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Corporate R&D intensity decomposition : theoretical, empirical and policy issues

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2016

Research and development (R&D) indicators are increasingly used not only to facilitate international comparisons, but also as targets for policies stimulating research. An example of such an indicator is R&D intensity. The decomposition method of R&D intensity was conceived with the aim of...

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Heterogeneous R&D spillovers and sustainable growth : limits to efficient regulation

Bondarev, Anton - 2018

This paper introduces heterogeneity of cross-technologies interactions into the double-differentiated R&D-based endogenous growth model. In this model new technologies appear continuously and older are outdated generating structural change. All technologies may interact with each other through...

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Economic incentives and the quality of return migrant scholars : the impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program

Jia, Ning; Fleisher, Belton M. - 2020

We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new hires, we find that the program leads to considerable increases in measures of their educational...

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Temporary and permanent technology lock-ins in the quality-differentiated Bertrand competition

Bondarev, Anton; Krysiak, Frank C. - 2017

We consider a setting where strategic behavior of r&d firms can lead to different types of a technology lock-in, permanent or temporary, in an eventually inferior technology. The simple setting with one incumbent and one potential entrant may lead to a wide variety of possible strategic regimes....

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Quality-adjusted productivity gain in the propagation of innovation

Nakano, Satoshi; Nishimura, Kazuhiko - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

We introduce a class of production function whose inputs and outputs constitute multiples of quality and quantity. Under the efficiency unit approach, we precisely reduce innovation regarding qualitative and quantitative improvements of production to the measurement of quality-adjusted...

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Quality-adjusted productivity gain in the propagation of innovation

Nakano, Satoshi; Nishimura, Kazuhiko - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

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The Effects of R&D on Regional Invention and Innovation

Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

This paper examines the effects of regional R&D on patenting for Sweden within an accessibility framework. We use two … measures of patenting: number of patents granted per capita and a composite of quality-adjusted patents which we regard as an … with regional R&D. In fact, quantile regressions over the distribution of different patenting and innovation levels per …

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The Effects of R&D on Regional Invention and Innovation

Ejermo, Olof; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

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