Arbeitspapier
Evaluating the Impact of R&D Tax Credits on Innovation: A Microeconometric Study on Canadian Firms
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 high-technology sectors. We investigate the average effect of R&D tax credits on a series of innovation indicators such as number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation etc. using a non-parametric matching approach. Compared to a hypothetical situation in the absence of R&D tax credits, recipients of tax credits show significantly better scores on most but not all performance indicators. We therefore conclude that tax credits increase the R&D engagement at the firm level and that the R&D activities induced by fiscal incentives lead to additional innovation output.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 04-77
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Government Policy
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- Thema
-
R&D
Innovation
Public Subsidies
Tax Credit
Policy Evaluation
Steuerbegünstigung
Subvention
Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik
Innovationspolitik
Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
Kanada
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Czarnitzki, Dirk
Hanel, Petr
Rosa, Julio Miguel
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (wo)
-
Mannheim
- (wann)
-
2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
Datenpartner
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Hanel, Petr
- Rosa, Julio Miguel
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2004